PSYCH 3400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Toilet Training, Sexual Stimulation, Defecation
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The focus is the mouth, with sucking and feeding being the most stimulating activities. The mother"s importance is unique without parallel, established unalterably for a whole lifetime as the first and strongest love-object and as the prototype of all later love-relations . The attachment to the mother/primary caregiver is the most important part of this stage and is the basis for all other stages: anal. The focus is the anus, with toilet training being the most important activity. The psychological need to defecate creates tension, which is relieved through defecation. parents demand that involuntary expulsion be replaced by delayed voluntary expulsion, and the child"s immediate gratification is frustrated. During this stage, freud highlights that potty training is such a big event for these children. If you don"t resolve these issues, you can end up with a child who is very explosive or has a problem managing emotions: phallic.
