Dream Analysis Before Freud, there was very little development of understanding the science of dreams. In ancient Greek and Roman eras, dreams were viewed from a religious perspective. They believed dreams were premonitions from the gods or the dead. Many people from that time looked to their dreams for solutions to life’s everyday complications. The Chinese believed that whilst dreaming their soul left their bodies to visit a separate dream dimension and if suddenly awakened their soul may not return to their bodies. In the 19th century dreams were dismissed as stemming from anxiety and other insignificant issues. It wasn’t until later in the 19th century that Sigmund Freud claimed that the motivation of all dreams is wish fulfillment, and …show more content…
The five stages of Freud’s psychosexual development theory included the oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital stages. During infancy the oral phase of development begins, the mouth being the source of all pleasurable interactions. The infant attains pleasure from gratifying activities such as sucking and eating. Freud believed if the child’s needs are not met during this period, it would result in issues with dependency, aggression, and oral fixations. During adulthood oral fixations may spawn negative habits such as eating, smoking, and nail biting. During the anal stage of development toddlers and preschool aged children must learn to control their bodily needs, developing control leads to independence and a sense of accomplishment. Improper resolution of this crisis can result in obsessiveness and tidiness if a parent is too harsh during toilet training and messy destruction personalities if a parent is too lax. During the phallic stage, the libido concentrates on the genitals. Throughout this phase of development children start to discover differences between males and females and begin to struggle with sexual desires toward the opposite sex parent. During the latent period, the libido is suspended and children and adolescence concentrate on suppressing sexual desires. At this time children focus on hobbies and friends. During the final stage of psychosexual development, the genital stage, people develop strong sexual interests in the opposite sex to fulfill the instinct to
The interpretation of dreams by Sigmund Freud holds a ton of information, mostly about what our dreams mean and how they can influence our daily lives. He expresses on page 310, that dreams can be wishes, fears,
Through case study, the psychodynamic approach was developed by Sigmund Freud. Freud visited Charcot’s, a laboratory in Paris investigating people suffering from hysteria. There, Freud began patient case studies (Crain, p. 254). Freud developed 5 stages of human development known as the Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency and Genital stages. The Oral stage is from the ages of birth to 18 months. This stage engages in oral activities such as sucking. Next the Anal stage begins around age 18 months to 3 years of age. Freud suggests that during the Anal stage a child focuses on the pleasure of purging from the rectal area. The Phallic stages, none as the masturbation stage, when a child get’s pleasure from focusing on his genital areas usually happens during ages 3 years to 6 years of age. After the Phallic stage come the Latency stages. Latency is when children at the ages of 6 to 12 years old work to develop cognitive and interpersonal skills suppressing sexual interests but those 12 years and older fall into the Genital stages. During the Genital stage those suppressed sexual interests re-occur and the need to find gratification dependent on finding a partner (Craig & Dunn, p 12)
Freud believed that one’s sex instinct was the most determining factor of his or her personality; however, instead of relating sex to the mature class of humanity, he instead targeted infants and children (4). He generated a process of psychosexual stages in which each stage focuses in on a sensual body part and a corresponding time period in life (4). The stages are as followed, starting from birth: Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency, Genital (4). Furthermore, each stage comes with its own conflict that arises when one is in this stage. He correlates that if this conflict is not solved during the set period of time, it can cause a fixation, thus bringing on personality traits in their adulthood relating back to that certain stage (4). For example, for one who is in the Anal stage (1 to 3 years) the conflict is toilet training. If the child remains too long or too briefly in this stage, later on in the future they could be more excessively cleanly or even destructive and rebellious (4). Perhaps the stage that was targeted with the most criticism, was the Phallic Stage or the Genitals stage occurring from 3 to 5 or 6 years (4). This stage mainly declared that young boys are more drawn to their mother and become more hostile towards their fathers, hinting to the underlying ideas that the young boys are sexually drawn to their mother. In a vice versa scenario,
The child focuses on the genitals, as they discover it is enjoyable. Freud's fourth stage
Everyone has their own individual traits that make them who they are. According to King, personality is “a pattern of enduring, distinctive thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that characterize the way an individual adapts to the world” (2016, pg. 375). I, myself am a firm believer of horoscopes and zodiac signs and being that I am a Pisces, would be described as a very creative person who is in touch with their emotions, even known to wear them on my sleeve at times. I definitely agree with that. I have always been imaginative and ever since I was a little kid, have had all these great ideas. My father used to say I would think about the world much differently than other people and would question things he has never thought about. I am also
Freud's proposed theory indicates that the psychosexual stages are known as oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital stages, which profoundly make up a person’s personality. “These are called psychosexual stages because each stage represents the fixation of libido (roughly translated as sexual drives or instincts) on a different area of the body.” (Saul McLeod, 2008) Concerning the oral, anal, phallic, and genital stages it is believed that if there is an overindulgence or lack of indulgence, people’s psychological development is influenced. The conflicts presented in each psychosexual stage must first be satisfied before a character can move to the next stage, and too much stimulation in one stage or not enough stimulation can define one’s
This paper explores Sigmund Freud’s psychosexual developmental theory. The articles, however, vary in their personal views of Freud’s model as it can be found as controversial. Freud’s ideas are highly influenced by personality, behavior, and developmental stages. This paper also examines the unconscious and conscious mind. Freud concluded that the mind is heavily influenced by the unconscious mind rather than consciousness. Stages from infancy to adulthood will also be examined.
Sigmund Freud proposed a theory of psychoanalytic development; he stated that early childhood experiences and practices affect later development in adulthood. Freud’s stages of psychosexual development comprised of five stages: the oral stage (0 – 1 year), the anal stage (1 – 3 years), the phallic stage (3 – 6 years), the latency period (6 – puberty) and the genital stage (puberty –
Freud’s theory of development was based on the assumption that development is influenced by sexual drives. Freud proposed his theory of psychosexual development in his paper “Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality” originally published in 1905 which was later translated to English in 1962. He theorized that from birth, humans have an instinctual sexual energy (i.e. libido) which is a significant component of personality development. Freud’s psychosexual development theory consists of five linear stages which spans across the entire lifespan. Each of these stages are characterized by a specific erogenous zone which is at the crux of the conflict of in the developmental stage (Freud, 1962). Freud (1962) believed that the erogenous zones involved in development are the mouth, the anus, and the genital region. The conflicts and behaviors in each of the psychosexual stages are closely associated with these erogenous areas. As Freud’s developmental theory is linear, a child is unable to progress to the next stage – i.e. unable to focus on the sexual energy associated with the primary erogenous zine of the next stage (Freud, 1962). The conflict central to the psychosexual stage must be resolved in order for an individual to move on to the following stage. According to Freud (1962), successful resolution of each of these stages involves expenditure of sexual energy. Freud (1962) theorized that the more energy used to overcome the conflict of a psychosexual stage leads to characteristics/ traits/ behaviors of that stage lasting through adulthood. He believed any lasting characteristics/ traits/ behaviors are what may underlie personality and psychopathology in adulthood (Freud, 1962)...
Developmental psychology is an area of research dedicated to the understanding of child-development. Throughout history many theories have been used to attempt to explain the complex process. Two of those theorists, Freud and Erikson, were instrumental in creating a foundation for child-psychology to build on. From a Freudian perspective, human development is centered on psychosexual theory. Psychosexual theory indicates that maturation of the sex drives underlies stages of personality development. Alternatively, Erikson is considered a neo-freudian scholar who developed psychosocial theory. In Erikson models there are eight major conflicts that occur during the course of an individual’s life.
Psychosexual development, or stages, was considered a fixed sequence of childhood development stages, during which the id primarily finds sexual pleasure by focusing its energies on distinct erogenous zones. Sigmund Freud believed that every child had fully matured personalities by the age of six, but had to first endure five stages of development. Each stage had a certain fixation and interest that a child seemed to stay at before they matured to a teenager, and wherever the fixation lied, a problem or condition occurred later. The stages of psychosexual development were named the oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital stages; all stages were critically important to the development of any person.
Early studies from a physician named Sigmund Freud played a role in psychologists studying dream analysis (Bernstein 149). According to Freud, dreams are wishes that may be unacceptable to the conscious mind and society. He assumed that dreams represented unsatisfied wishes and that they happened during a state of the unconscious (Bernstein 149). According to researcher Judd Marmor, Freud did not obtain the information without help from others. Ancient people studied dreams around 2000 B.C. in Egypt, way before Freud was even born. The “Dreaming and Modern Dream Theory” article goes into great details about the history of dreams. During the Biblical time period, dreams were viewed as communications from God. People regarded dreams seriously and they thought that they had specific meanings (“Dreaming and Modern Dream Theory”). This information proves that dreams were analyzed based on people’s perceptions, and not on pure facts. Each Individual’s perceptions were based solely off of their
Since the beginning of time, dreams have been a source of mysterious wonder amongst people. Everyone dreams, and those who claim they do not, do dream, however, they are unable to recall their dreams. Prior to psychological research, dreams were interpreted and explained as an unconscious desire, predictions, or subliminal messages. These outdated beliefs existed throughout time until new psychological research came into being. The new psychological research by Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung gave rise to new dream theories that helped gain a greater understanding on dream interpretations.
In 1905 Sigmund Freud introduced his theory of psychosexual development, that is, five stages of an individual’s life from birth and onward, in order to explain how one develops and identifies with their own gender. Freud’s five stages: The Oral Stage, which takes place during approximately the first 18 months of a child’s life, where oral stimulation is the center fixation as an infant learns how to suckle and feed, the Anal Stage, which takes place anywhere from the first to the third year of a child’s life, where the individual begins to control bladder and bowel movements, the Phallic Stage, which usually takes place around age 3-7, where the child first becomes aware of their own genitalia, as well as begin to distinguish the difference between the male and female genders. This stage is where Freud also hypothesized the idea of the Oe...
Before I get started I just want to note that this paper made me realize how far I have developed from my childhood and even the beginning of high school. With that said I’m going to describe my own progression through the psychosexual stages of development.