Sigmund Freud's Psychosexual Theory Analysis

Sigmund Freud was a Viennese physician who developed his psychosexual theory of development through his work with emotionally troubled adults. His theory is based on the idea that parents play an important role in managing their children’s sexual and aggressive drives during the first few years of life in order to substitute their proper development.
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Introduction
I am focusing this assignment, the briefly explain Freud’s psychosexual theory of development, critiques of Freud’s theory and finally the conclusion.
According to Freud (1905) proposed that psychological development in childhood takes place in a series of fixed stages. These stages are called psychosexual stages because each stage represents the fixation of

A particular conflict is associated with each psychosexual stage and that must be resolved before the individual can successfully advance to the next stage. The resolution of each of these conflicts requires the expenditure of sexual energy and the more energy that is expended at a particular stage the more the important characteristics of that stage remain with the individual as he/she matures psychologically ( McLeod, 2008).
In the other hand lots of people argue about Freud’s theory in many ways. “Freud 's psychosexual theory is controversial and has been thoroughly criticized. Meanwhile first, even though Freud 's stages are related to children, he based most of his theory on his work with troubled adults; he in fact never worked with children. I believed his work was too focused on human sexuality, especially his focus on the Oedipus complex and children 's sexual desire for parents. Some critics of Freud believe the memories and fantasies of childhood seduction Freud reported were not real memories but constructs that Freud created and forced upon his patients. Finally, supporters of feminist theory believe Freud 's theory to be sexist and overly reliant upon a male

Example when they want anything from others they cry to get it. Some extent as we see this stage in children’s development.
Next comes the phallic stage (ages three to six).Hence pleasure zone changes to the genitals.
Freud believed during this stage boy develop unconscious sexual desires for their mother.
Because of this, he becomes contenders with his father and sees him as competition for the mother’s affection.
Example: this stage we found that the children sometimes not allowed father or any other to get close to their mother. They wanted to be with their mother always.
Then comes Latency stage (age six to puberty), during this stage that sexual urges stays repressed and children interact and play mostly with the same peers.
Example: they talk on different sexual things like this girl is beautiful or watches photos, movies, with the peers’ discus some experiences.
The final stage in Freud’s theory is Genital stage (puberty on).This stage development begins at the start of puberty when sexual urges are once again stimulated. Adolescents direct their sexual urges onto opposite sex peers; with the primary focus of pleasure is the genital, through the lessons learned during the previous