... the persons life, like a circle. Excitation Gratification Excitement due to need Need is meet Freud proposed that we are driven or motivated by are instinctual drives. He saw the instinct and sex drive as exerting the most influence in the early years of life and therefore childhood as a time of key importance in personal development. Freud proposed that children are able to receive sexual pleasure from any part of their bodies, but as they grow older the sexual drive becomes focused upon different parts of the body. There are five different stages of development they are; the oral stage, the anal stage, the phallic stage, the latency stage and the Genital stage. Stage one the oral stage focuses on the mouth where pleasure is gained first from sucking and swallowing (the oral passive sub stage)and later as teeth emerge, from biting and chewing (the oral active sub ...

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