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Compare Sigmund Freud And Erikson's Psychosexual Theory

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Compare and contrast Sigmund Freud 's psychosexual theory of development and Erik Erikson 's psychosocial theory of development.

The matter of human development has been a valid one inside the human society. In this respect, there are some developmental theories that have been promoted by some of the world’s most popular psychologists. The main two theories of development are Sigmund Freud’s psychosexual theory and Erik Erikson’s psychosocial theory. Freud believed that personality develops through a series of childhood stages through which the self-satisfaction and focused on certain erogenous areas. Much like Freud, Erikson said that personality develops in a series of stages. Unlike Freud’s theory of psychosexual stages, Erikson’s theory defines the influence of social experience across the whole …show more content…

In accordance with the psychosexual theory, the first stage is described as the oral stage in this stage of personality development of libido (sexual energy) is centered in a baby 's mouth. It gets much satisfaction from putting all sorts of things in mouth to satisfy the libido, and thus its id demands. At this stage of life are mouth orientated, such as sucking, biting, and breast feeding. Freud describes the second is the anal stage. In this stage libido has focused on the anus and the child derives great pleasure from defecating. The child is totally aware that they are a person in their own right and that their wishes can bring them into conflict with the stresses of the outside world. Freud describes the third stage is the phallic stage. In this stage feeling becomes concentrated in the genitals and masturbation and it becomes a new source of pleasure. The child becomes aware of body sex differences, which sets in gesture the conflict between sensual attraction, anger, enmity, jealousy and distress which Freud called the Oedipus complex (in boys) and the Electra complex (in

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