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... This says that from birth to around five we go through various stages, the oral stage, anal, phallic and so on. We should move from one stage to another as a matter of course, if we are to develop into a normal adult. Sometimes however we do not move naturally from one stage to the next. When this happens it can lead to problems when we reach adulthood. He also said that sometimes things happen, such as problems occurring, in one of these stages and if this problem is not cleared up then again this can lead to problems or abnormality when we become an adult. We can see many examples of this in Freud's work, one such being 'Little Hans'. We see in the above paragraph some descriptive work AO1 but it is more 'common sense' rather than psychological. There has been a rudimentary attempt at evaluation AO2 but the ...