Psychosexual development is a central element of Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic sexual drive theory, describing how personality develops through a series of childhood stages in which the id's pleasure-seeking energies become focused on specific erogenous zones. Freud proposed five stages, the oral, anal, phallic, latent and genital, each centered on its own erogenous zone as a source of pleasure. Being unsatisfied at a given stage could produce fixation there, while satisfaction supported a healthy adult personality, and Freud held that frustration at any stage could leave anxiety that persisted into adulthood as neurosis.
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Core ClaimPersonality develops through five childhood stages, the oral, anal, phallic, latency and genital, in which pleasure-seeking energy becomes focused on a different erogenous zone at each stage. 1 Psychosexual Development
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personality develops through a series of childhood stages in which pleasure-seeking energies from the id become focused on certain erogenous areas
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Given the predictable timeline of childhood behavior, he proposed "libido development" as a model of normal childhood sexual development, wherein the child progresses through five psychosexual stages - the oral; the anal; the phallic; the latency; and the genital - in which the source pleasure is in a different erogenous zone.
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as introduced in his major work publication Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality in 1905
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Historically, Freud's theory was pioneering in its highlighting of the importance of childhood, and influenced attachment theory (which is also criticized as non-factual), psychodynamic psychotherapy, and developmental psychology generally.
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In psychoanalysis, psychosexual development is a central element of the sexual drive theory.
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