genital stage

The Genital stage is achieved if a person has met all of his or her needs throughout the other stages with enough available sexual energy.

Erikson elaborated Freud's genital stage into adolescence, and added three stages of adulthood.

The final stage in psychosexual development is the genital stage, occurring from puberty through the rest of adulthood.

The genital stage affords the person the ability to confront and resolve his or her remaining psychosexual childhood conflicts.

Also, the fifth stage of adolescence is said to parallel the genital stage in psychosexual development:

She's regressing down through the Genital Stage to the Oral Stage.

The polarity of the phallic stage is not male-female, as it is in the later genital stage, at puberty.

The genital stage in psychoanalysis is the term used by Sigmund Freud to describe the final stage of human psychosexual development.

A failure to reach the genital stage in adolescence is, of course, a consequence of failure to resolve the Oedipus complex satisfactorily.

As in the phallic stage, the genital stage is centered upon the genitalia, but the sexuality is consensual and adult, rather than solitary and infantile.

The repressive or dormant latency stage of psychosexual development preceded the sexually mature genital stage of psychosexual development.

It is amusing to note that Freud recognized the first circuit as the oral stage, the second as the anal stage and the fourth as the genital stage.

He found the stage from about three to six years of age (preschool years, today called the "first genital stage") to be filled with fantasies of having romantic relationships with both parents.

Also, according to the psychoanalytic theory, there are five stages of psycho sexual development that everyone goes through; the oral stage, anal stage, phallic stage, latency stage, and genital stage.

Sigmund Freud came up with a five stage theory that stated human beings are born with sexual energy; this energy was thought to develop in five stages (oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital stages).

Like me and as expected, they were both deeply depressed and following A.K.'s predictions perfectly, though they refused to regress from Genital Stage to Oral Stage, clearly a problem of my technique, not Freud's theory.

The fifth stage of psychosexual development is the genital stage that spans puberty and adult life, and thus occupies most of the life of a man and of a woman; its purpose is the psychologic detachment and independence from the parents.

The psychological difference between the phallic and genital stages is that the ego is established in the latter; the person's concern shifts from primary-drive gratification (instinct) to applying secondary process-thinking to gratify desire symbolically and intellectually by means of friendships, a love relationship, family and adult responsibilities.

Furthermore, contemporary research confirms that although personality traits corresponding to the oral stage, the anal stage, the phallic stage, the latent stage, and the genital stage are observable, they remain undetermined as fixed stages of childhood, and as adult personality traits derived from childhood.