Introduction to Psychology/Child and Adolescent Psychology/Contributions of Freud

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Freud's development theory
- Sigmund Freud - psychosexual theory
  1. Oral and anal
    - Id desires pleasure from erogenous zones. The ego is emerging and keeping the id in check as children learn to delay gratification
  2. Phallic
    - As a result of unconscious sexual desires for opposite-sex parent, children learn to identify with same-sex parents. It is through this identification that the child acquires the superego.
  3. Latency
    - emergence of superego produces shame because of sexual desires. Sexual feelings are repressed.
  4. Genital
    - Children mature into adolescents. Sexual identities are formed.

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