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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by the five stages of

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human development we have an extensive whoopee cushion collection so we'll [People in meeting and whoopee cushion goes off]

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leave it up to you yes what stage where else all right according to Freud

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psychosexual theory of human development children go through five stages before

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reaching adulthood what is the stage characterized by a period of stability

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before puberty and here the potential answers

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Freud was a little weird but he is your

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mother or a father of psychoanalysis anyway Freud felt the libido for sexual [Freud wearing a wig and wig disappears]

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drives or instincts of the individual manifested themselves around different

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areas of the body depending on the stage of psychosexual development the first

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stage of the oral stage and no giggling near people which occurs in the first

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year of life and describes how babies satisfy their libidos and the demands of

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it by sucking biting and breastfeeding well Freud also said that oral [Freud sucking on a dummy]

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stimulation in this stage could lead to an oral fixation later in life which we

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see manifested in behaviors like smoking biting nails sucking thumbs chewing on [Man chewing on door knob]

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doorknobs and will anything at all doesn't have to be sexual yeah so it's

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not our answer next up comes the anal stage what do we say about giggling

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there be able to month occurring from age 1 to 3 this stage focuses on how the

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libido shifts to the anus suggesting the children derive their pleasure from

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defecation or at least jokes about it and that the ship was related to the [Man making joke on stage]

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strong emphasis on potty training during this period we're really not sure who

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Freud studied to come to this conclusion maybe he volunteered at a daycare for a [Freud at a day care center]

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few years but yeah it still happens too early to be what we're looking for in

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this question next up the phallic stage while lasting [Woman pointing a banana]

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from age 3 until around 6 this stage concentrates on the genitals of both

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sexes and describes period when children become aware of their anatomical

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differences this includes Freud's idea about girls having penis envy and boys [Freud thinking of penis envy and boys carrying knives]

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wanting to kill their dads in order to replace them and a whole lot of other

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stuff like that that tends to get dismissed as you're selling it come on

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Fry don't pin your personal issues on the rest of

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then comes the latency stage of stage at last around six until puberty

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ding-ding-ding this is a stage where no psychosexual development is said to take

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place where the libido is supposedly dormant and repressed until puberty and [Libido sleeping in bed]

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yep that's the answer we want it but just for grins and giggles final stage

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begins at puberty and lasts through adulthood it's known as the genital

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stage and describes adolescent sexual experimentation and settling down into [Man and woman holding hands]

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loving one-on-one relationship or an unhealthy obsession with fart joke [Freud holding whoopee cushion]

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