By doing this, Freud was able to identify three components of personality structure: the id, the ego and the superego. ... According to Freud, unconscious conflicts between the id, ego and superego sometimes lead to anxiety. ... Between the three the id, ego and superego are distributed differently across the three levels of awareness. ...
Abstract This paper discusses the movie XXY and how its main character's, Alex, life can be examined via Sigmund Freud's Five Stages of Psychosexual Development. Alex is an intersex teenager who lives in Argentina and who was born with both female and male gene Talia. Although the viewer does not w...
Theory of Human Nature According to Sigmund Freud, a psychoanalyst, there are five stages of psychosexual development. The five stages are oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital. In each stage, different areas of the child's body become the focus of their pleasure and their main source of ...
