nd stimulates the mouth with it, we may know this act as the baby sucking his or her thumb. The second stage of libidinal is the anal stage. In this stage, pleasures like the ones in the oral stage are similar. These pleasures are repeated through pleasures to the anus. The bowel movements mark this pleasure. The final stage in the libidinal stages of a child is the phallic stage. This is done when the child manipulates their genitalia in order for gratification. Freud thought that a child in the phallic stage had a strong attraction to the parent of the opposite sex. He called this Oedipus complex. Most people throughout the world turned against this idea of Freud’s. Which was the attraction to the parent of the opposite sex. According to Freud, the child is taught to turn against those feelings and desires which then fall into their unconscious minds. This leads to three defence mechanisms of the mind in Freud’s psychosexual theory of personality development. The first one is the ID, this is “the unconscious system of the personality, which contains the life and death instincts and operates only on the pleasure principle.” The ID is completely unconscious and is the source of basic impulses and drives; it is the biological reservoir that underlies all actions. It operates in accordance with the pleasure principle and seeks immediate gratification and satisfaction. The second is known as the Ego, “in Freudian theory, the rational, largely conscious system of personality, which operates according to the reality principle. It derives its energy from the ID, but it is the instrument of reason and sanity. Much of the ego is conscious, and uses memory, perception of the environment, and habits to perform the role of a rational executive. The last and final stage in the Freudian theory is the Superego. By definition the Superego can best be defined as “the moral system of the personality, which ...
