OralThe Mouth: Sucking, Swallowing, etc. AnalThe Anus: Withholding or Expelling faces PhallicThe penis or clitoris: Masturbation LatentLittle or no sexual motivation present GenitalThe penis or vagina: Sexual Intercourse
Sigmund Freud believed that personality develops during early childhood. For him, childhood experiences shape our personalities and behavior as adults. Freud viewed development as discontinuous; he believed that each of us must pass through a serious of stages during childhood, and that if we lack proper nurturance and parenting during a stage, we may become stuck, or fixated, in that stage. Freud's stages are called the stages of Psychosexual Development.