Freuds Development Theories

FREUD 'S DEVELOPMENT THEORIES

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Sigmund Freud is known also known as the father of psychoanalysis in an internationally acclaimed psychologist for his authoritative contribution to the field of psychology . He lived between 1856 and 1939 and by the time of his death he had redefined old concepts and brought in a new and radical conceptual and theoretical framework that has been used to shed more light on the process of psychological development

One of his most important theories is the Theory on Psychosexual

br Development . In this theory , he advances the role of sexual pleasure in the developmental stages of a child . He identified a succession of stages in which specific zones of the body provides gratification by being successively endowed with libido , a pleasure seeking energy (Joseph H , 1996 , 28 . He also pointed out that at every stage of a child 's development , a kids behavior is mostly centered and obsessed with certain parts of the body from which such a kid derives immense sexual pleasure . These parts identified are the mouth , arms and the phallus or the genitals . At each of the stage identified the child 's libido centers on behavior affecting the primary erogenous zone of his age ' This is to mean that he or she can only focus on the pleasure of the next stage after resolving the developments conflict of the immediate one (David B , 1996

These stages as identified by Freud include the oral stage , anal stage phallic stage , latency...