Freud explains his stages: the first year of life is the oral stage which meant that the child’s main source of pleasure is through the mouth this includes sucking, eating, and tasting. The big issue with this stage was that an oral fixation can result. Age one to three is the anal stage, which means that children at this age gain a sense of ability by controlling bowel movement (Cherry, 20015). However, children who masters this stage are more likely to be more productive whereas children who have difficult with this stage may develop a sense of anal fixation. The phallic stage involves ages from three to six. At this stage Freud explains that, children will begin to identify with their same sex parent. Which means that boys experience the Oedipus complex and the girls experience the Electra complex (Cherry, 20015). Latency stage occurs at the age of 6 to puberty. During the latency stage, children are usually focused on other activities like friends and school mainly the child focuses on self-confidence and social skills Freud thought that this stage was very vital for the child. The last stage in Freud’s theory was the genital stage, this is when the child understands sexual awareness and develops their identity (Osinki,
Freud explains his stages: the first year of life is the oral stage which meant that the child’s main source of pleasure is through the mouth this includes sucking, eating, and tasting. The big issue with this stage was that an oral fixation can result. Age one to three is the anal stage, which means that children at this age gain a sense of ability by controlling bowel movement (Cherry, 20015). However, children who masters this stage are more likely to be more productive whereas children who have difficult with this stage may develop a sense of anal fixation. The phallic stage involves ages from three to six. At this stage Freud explains that, children will begin to identify with their same sex parent. Which means that boys experience the Oedipus complex and the girls experience the Electra complex (Cherry, 20015). Latency stage occurs at the age of 6 to puberty. During the latency stage, children are usually focused on other activities like friends and school mainly the child focuses on self-confidence and social skills Freud thought that this stage was very vital for the child. The last stage in Freud’s theory was the genital stage, this is when the child understands sexual awareness and develops their identity (Osinki,