Role of Sigmund Freud’s Theory of Psychological Development in Lifespan Development

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Introduction

Psychology is the scientific study of behaviour, cognitive and emotions. Psychology is an academic and applied field involving the study of behaviour, mind and thought and the subconscious neurological bases of behavior. This research project is all about the lifespan development, learning theory and psychological disorder all explaining the theories and different real world scenarios.

Lifespan development

Sigmund freud theory of psychological development

Sigmund freuds psychological theory proposed that the behavior and development of a person are influenced by the interactions between the conscious and unconscious aspects of that persons mind. Freud proposed that psychological development in childhood takes place during five psychosexual stages: oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital. Each of the psychosexual stages is associated with a particular conflict that must be resolved before the individual can successfully advance to the next stage. The resolution of each of these conflicts requires the expenditure of sexual energy and the more energy that is expended at a particular stage, the more the important characteristics of that stage remain with the individual as he/she matures psychologically (simply psychology 2019).

The genital stage is the final stage of Sigmund Freud’s psychosexual development and begins at the start of puberty when sexual urges are once again awakened. Through the lessons learned during the pervious stages, adolescents direct their sexual urges onto opposite sex peers, with the primary focus of pleasure is the genitals. Where in earlier stages the focus was solely on individual needs, interest in the welfare of others grows during this stage. The goal of this stage is to establish a balance between the various life areas (K. gabrielle, frueds psychological stages, february 2020).

At this time of my life I was very interested in school, games and social networking. In the past I was mainly focused on developing healthy social and communication skills. But during that process I was able to start many relationships with some of the people just to experience the different feelings in the relationships. With that practise I was able to find the right relationship and the type of person that suits me.

Freud believes that at the genital stage is the stage where one’s past is revealed, for example the Scenario above shows that the person is fixated with the phallic stage and may become drawn to having many relationships or gain more pleasure in different relationships.

Reference

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