Personality Development Erogenous Zones - places in the body where the libido focuses its energy at different times during childhood. 5 Stages of Psychosexual Development 1. Pleasure comes from putting things in your mouth either too much or too little pleasure during a stage of psychosexual development causes a person to be fixated in that stage as an adult. Oral personalities are people fixated at the oral stage and derive pleasure as adults from their mouth. Biting fingernails, smoking, biting pencils, gullible, passive, and dependent like a nursing infant.
Pleasure comes from letting go or holding on to feces.
During toilet training, there is a conflict between the parents and the child. Oedipal complex - a tendency for children to become sexually attracted to the parent of the opposite sex and to feel rage and jealousy toward the rival parent of the same sex. By identifying with his Dad and foregoing lust for Mom, the boy develops his superego and his gender identity. She develops her gender identity and superego by identifying with mom. A phallic personality in a woman is one who symbolically castrates the men in her life.