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

• 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.