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Psychosexual Stages of Development
1. The Oral Stage. The oral stage lasts through about the first year of life, and the

erogenous zone is the mouth. Pleasure comes mainly through the lips, tongue,
and such activities as sucking, chewing, and swallowing.
2. The Anal Stage. The anal stage lasts through about the second year of life, and
the erogenous zone is the anus-buttocks region of the body. During the first
part of the anal stage, pleasure comes mainly from activities such as feces
expulsion, and a fixation here results in the adult having an anal-expulsive
character.
3. The Phallic Stage. The phallic stage lasts from about the beginning of the third
year to the end of the fifth year, and the erogenous zone is the genital region
of the body.
4. The Latency Stage. The latency stage lasts from about the beginning of the
sixth year until puberty.
5. The Genital Stage. The genital stage lasts from puberty through the remainder
of one’s life. With the onset of puberty, sexual desires become too intense to
repress completely, and they begin to manifest themselves.

Freud was not a methodologist, his data collection was unsystematic and
uncontrollable. Freud did not develop a theory that gave rise to testable
hypotheses or other empirical implications. However, psychoanalysis has a unique
position in the history of psychology. Freud revolutionized attitudes and created a
new position for studying personality.

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