Hello my name is Sigmund-- Sigmund Freud.
Once again I am stepping in for your
instructor,  Pat Johnson. Today I'm
talking about a very important part of
my personality theory-- the psychosexual
stages of development.
Now when you say the word psychosexual,
do not necessarily think intercourse.
When I say sexual, I'm saying where
physical gratification is on the body at
a certain stage of development.  So the
person's personality develops and grows
and it has its different characteristics
based on what happens to our child from
birth to adulthood. So my theory goes through different stages of where
sexual gratification, in other words,
where bodily pleasure is focused at that
particular point in time.
Now if we think of our little baby at
birth,
our little baby is only interested in
one thing eating.  So our first stage of
psychosexual development is called the
oral stage.
In the oral stage the body part where
sexual, in other words, bod gratification,
is focused is the mouth.  And so
the important task here is to gain
nourishment and to also be weaned by
the parent at an appropriate time.  Now
let's suppose that the baby is weaned
too soon.  We'll see anxiety later in
life with the child, now an adult, doing
things that such as smoking or
sticking things like their fingers, their
fingernails into their mouths, and this
shows the anxiety of an unresolved oral
stage of psychosexual development.
The next task that our baby must do is to
be potty trained and so the next stage
where the baby has control of its body
and receives bodily pleasure is the
anus.  And so the next stage is the anal
stage of development.
Gratification, sexual gratification, again
meaning bodily pleasure, comes from the
expulsion and retention of feces.  In
other words, To poop or not to poop, that is the
question.  So again, if this stage goes
bad, we will see characteristics later in
the child's life.  If a child has a too
strict potty training, we will see the
child being anal retentive.  Anal retentiveness has characteristics of
being a very stingy, being very fussy,
being very strict with themselves and
with others.  So somebody who is anal
retentive will have to have everything
just so and be very very timely, be very
organized.  On the other hand, if the potty
training was very late, our baby, now a
child, will have characteristics of anal
expulsiveness and this will last until
and through adulthood.  Those of you who
had late and messy potty training
have the characteristics of
expulsiveness that show that you are
very messy, often late, often disorganized
person and this is a direct result
of your being potty trained in a very
slack way.
Our baby continues to grow and as our baby
is about three years old,
the baby enters the phallic stage.  Now
the phallic stage is very important.
The focus is on auto stimulation of the
genitals, in other words masturbation.  So
our baby will be touching itself and
seeking pleasure in that way.  We call
this stage for little boys the 
the oedipal stage.  The oedipal
conflict which is in the phallic stage.
So the little boy will have extreme
sexual attraction to his mommy.  He will
be in love with his mommy, but he has
great fear because daddy is the ultimate
enemy.  In this stage the little boy
fears daddy and he fears that will
steal me away from him.
Little girls also go through the phallic
stage I didn't have quite the focus in
my theory on little girls, so this is a
male centric theory.  Little girls would go
through the Electra complex.  And in the
Electra complex the little girl would very
much desire their daddy and fear their
mommy but this stage, the phallic stage,
is very important for the psychosexual
development.
The next stage I called the latency
stage, and in the latency stage we see a
period of sexual calmness.  The
outward
expression of sexual urges is not seen.
These are hidden -- they are latent and the
child focuses more on relationships with
friends usually gained through school.
The last stage of psychosexual
development is the genital stage and
once again the focus is on sexual
gratification from the genitals. But
instead of the masturbation that we saw
in the phallic stage, our child here is
establishing mature sexual relationships.
So there you have it.  You have my
psychosexual theories of development. Now I
must admit that some of the
colleagues said that I had an obsession
with sex.  I would deny that. I would say
that is just not true.  Some even said that
I had an
oral gratification with a phallic symbol.  A
phallic symbol being anything that is
long and cylindrical.  They even claimed
that my love of cigars was trying to get
oral gratification with a phallic
symbol but one of my most important
quotes is, "sometimes a cigar, is just a
cigar."
