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Analysis of a phobia of a 5 year old boy
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Evaluation, Freud (1909) Analysis of a phobia of a 5 year old boy Background One of the themes of Freud's work is the importance of the first few years of life in the development of personality. He also believed that children experience emotional conflicts, and their future adjustment depends on how well these conflicts are resolved. Another theme within Freud's work concerns the unconscious mind, which is the part of our mind which we are not aware of. Freud believed that the unconscious contains unresolved conflicts and has a powerful effect on our behaviour and experience. He believed that children pass through five stages of development, known as the psychosexual stages because of Freud's emphasis on sexuality as the basic drive in development. These stages are: the oral stage, the anal stage, the phallic stage, the latency period and finally the genital stage. It is the first three stages which take place in...
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