Topic > Analysis of Sigmund Freud's Psychodynamic Theory

If you look at Freud's theory, personality is formed when an individual goes through a series of stages from childhood to adulthood (Mcleod, 2008). These five stages are known as “Psychosexual Development”. Through each of these phases the personality is shaped and formed, the different phases are oral, anal, phallic, latent and genital (R. Gross, 2015). If these stages are not resolved or completed a fixation can occur which can be detrimental to an individual's personality development (Lahey,