Psychosexual Stages

Question 1

Oral age

Answer 1

0-1

Question 2

Oral focus

Answer 2

Mouth, mothers breast is the object of desire

Question 3

Oral description

Answer 3

The infant experiences pleasure through their mouth, particularly sucking and biting.

Question 4

Oral unresolved conflict

Oral fixation:

Answer 4

Oral fixation: here a person might engage in behaviours like smoking, nail-biting, etc.

Question 5

Anal age

Answer 5

1-3

Question 6

Anal focus

Answer 6

Anus

Question 7

Anal description

Answer 7

Child gains pleasure from withholding and expelling feaces

Question 8

Anal fixation

Answer 8

Anal fixation can manifest in two ways.

1) Anal retentive: here a person might become an obsessive perfectionist;
2) Anal explusive: here a person might be messy and thoughtless.

Question 9

Phallic age

Answer 9

3-5

Question 10

Focus

Answer 10

Genitals

Question 11

Phallic description

Answer 11

The major feature of this stage is the Oedipus complex in which infant boys must overcome their unconscious sexual desire for their mother by identifying with their father. It is during this stage that the Superego develops.

Question 12

Phallic fixation

Answer 12

A phallic fixation or phallic personal might manifest in reckless and narcissistic behaviours

Question 13

Latency description

Answer 13

Earlier conflicts are repressed

Question 14

Genital description

Answer 14

Sexual desires become conscious alongside the onset of puberty

Question 15

Genital unresolved conflict

Answer 15

Difficulty forming heterosexual relationships