Transcription of Psychosexual Development: Freudian Concept
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180 Introduction to Social Work23 Psychosexual Development: Freudian Concept * Tomy PhilipIntroductionThe theory of Psychosexual development, also knownas theory of libidinal development, is one of the earliesttheories explaining how personality develops in humanbeings. This theory owes its credence to the findingsof Sigmund Freud s clinical research with emotionallydisturbed people. The theory of psychosexualdevelopment, however, is an integral part of thepsychodynamic personality theory proposed by is often considered the first psychologicaltheorist to have emphasized the developmental aspectsof personality and the decisive role of the earlyexperiences during infancy and childhood in layingdown the basic character structure of an adult to Freud, the individual passes through aseries of dynamically differentiated developmentalstages during the life span, which are characterizedby dis
age. During the initial part of anal stage there is pleasurable sensation of excretion and later there is erotic stimulation of the anal mucosa through retention of feces. This stage is divided into two sub stages i.e. the anal expulsive period and the anal retention period. The anal expulsive phase overlaps with the closing stages of oral period.
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