1. SUMMARY OF SIGMUND FREUD’S PSYCHOSEXUAL STAGES
AND ERIK ERIKSON’S PSYCHOSOCIAL STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
Stages of Stages of Radius of
Core of
Period Psychosexual Personality Traits Psychosocial Personality Traits Significant
Pathology
Development Development Persons
Act of dependency
Birth to onset and aggressiveness; TRUST vs. Maternal persons
ORAL STAGE Hope and Drive Withdrawal
of 1 year finds instant MISTRUST or caregivers
gratification
Receive primary
1 year to about pleasure; toilet AUTONOMY vs. Will and Self-
ANAL STAGE Compulsion Parental persons
3 to 4 years training is being SHAME & DOUBT control
observed
Instinctual attraction
for the opposite-sex
parent; Oedipus INITIATIVE vs. Purpose and
3 to 6 years PHALLIC STAGE Inhibition Basic Family
complex and Electra GUILT Direction
complex is being
observed
6 to 12 stage
Increased activity INDUSTRY vs. “Neighborhood”;
or the puberty LATENCY STAGE Competence Inertia
with same sex peers INFERIORITY school
stage

2. IDENTITY vs. Peer groups and
Role
12 to 18 years ROLE Fidelity out group models
Repudiation
CONFUSION of leadership
Partners in
INTIMACY vs. Love and friendship, sex,
18 to 30 years Centered in Exclusivity
ISOLATION Affiliation competition,
GENITAL STAGE heterosexual
cooperation
behavior
GENERATIVITY Divided labor and
30 to old age Care Rejection
vs. STAGNATION shared household
Old age to INTEGRITY vs. “Mankind”; “My
Wisdom Disdain
death DESPAIR Kind”