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By thus resolving his incestuous conundrum, the boy passes into the latency period, a period of libidinal dormancy. [6] Initially, Freud applied the theory of the Oedipus complex to the psychosexual development of boys, but later developed the female aspects of the theory as the feminine Oedipus attitude and the negative Oedipus complex. [9]
The psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud (ca. 1921). In Freudian psychoanalysis, the phallic stage is the third stage of psychosexual development, spanning the ages of three to six years, wherein the infant's libido (desire) centers upon their genitalia as the erogenous zone.
The latency stage is the fourth stage of Sigmund Freud's model of a child's psychosexual development. Freud believed that the child discharges their libido (sexual energy) through a distinct body area that characterizes each stage. The stages are: the 'oral phase' (first stage) the 'anal phase' (second stage) the 'phallic phase' (third stage)
Freud believed that the Oedipal sentiment has been inherited through the millions of years it took for humans to evolve from apes. [10] His view of its universality was based on his clinical observation of neurotic or normal children, his analysis of his own response to Oedipus Rex , and on the fact that the play was effective on both ancient ...
He believed that the mind-set was shared both by little boys and little girls [5] —a viewpoint shared by the orthodox strand of his following, as epitomised for example in the work of Otto Fenichel. [6] Freud considered such phallic monism to be at the core of neurosis to the very end of his career. [7]
Sigmund Freud believed that children go through stages of psychosexual development. In the third year of the child's life, genitals are thought to become active. As children develop a greater understanding of their own sex they also develop either a castration complex (in boys) or penis envy (in girls). For boys, during the “phallic” stage ...
The castration complex is a concept developed by Sigmund Freud, first presented in 1908, [1] initially as part of his theorisation of the transition in early childhood development from the polymorphous perversity of infantile sexuality to the ‘infantile genital organisation’ which forms the basis for adult sexuality.
Freud had a lot of data as evidence for the seduction theory, but rather than presenting the actual data on which he based his conclusions (his clinical cases and what he had learned from them) or the methods he used to acquire the data (his psychoanalytic technique), he instead addressed only the evidence that the data he reportedly acquired were accurate (that he had discovered genuine abuse).