Sigmund Freud

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Sigmund Freud

When I was 10th grade in Korea, I took a psychology lecture for the first time in the

academy. That time, I was come into some psychologists and lots of theories about

psychology. At the beginning, it was very strange and difficult to learn. But as time

passed by, I had more interests about the psychology especially Sigmund Freud, who

was a very intelligent psychoanalyst.

Sigmund Freud has many theories on how people develop. His most influential theory

to the development of the human mind was his five psychosexual stages. Freud's belief

was that children were done developing after they finished going through puberty. The

stages started with infants describing this as the oral stage, or the sucking stage. The

anal stage deals with the one and two year olds. This age group is starting to potty

train. After this stage the three through five year olds go through the phallic stage.

The child focuses on the genitals, as they discover it is enjoyable. Freud's fourth stage

is the latency stage, including children six to twelve years. This is when their sexual

interests are put on the back burn. The last stage is the genital stage. Children

going through puberty have a time of sexual reawakening. Other theorists criticized

him by saying that there was more to development than sex. They also said a person

does not stop developing after they turn eighteen. Freud did develop another theory

that many author's have described in their literary works which included the Id, Ego,

and Superego. The Id, Ego, and Superego dealt with how the

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