Sexual Health
How is sexual psychology stimulated? Elaborate on the Six Stages of Sexual Psychological Development
In recent years, with the continuous expansion of opening up to the outside world, Western culture has been widely spread. This "civilized" environment, including some scenes in movies and television, and the influence of a few pornographic books and magazines, has a great inducing effect on people's awakening of sexual consciousness. Therefore, it is extremely urgent to study and understand human sexual psychology. Now, we generally know that puberty and sexual maturity develop simultaneously, but we lack understanding of the development process of human sexual psychology. What are the laws that can be followed in the development process of human sexual psychology? At present, there is no scientific consensus on the pattern of sexual psychological development, and the experiences and development of sexual psychology vary depending on gender. Freud once proposed a famous developmental model of sexual psychology, where he understood sex as a broad range of bodily pleasure and described the development of sexual psychology according to the characteristics of the bodily pleasure zone. In Freud's view, the development of sexual psychology roughly goes through six stages: (1) the labial stage: from birth to one year old. During this period, the satisfaction of infant sexual pleasure mainly relies on the lips, and the baby obtains pleasure during the sucking process. At this stage, if the needs of the lips are not met or too much is met, a lip shaped personality will develop, and this type of person has a strong sense of dependence and is greedy. (2) Anal period: starts approximately one year old and lasts until two years old. At this stage, the excretory function becomes the main target of infant sexual pleasure, and infants derive great pleasure from excretory activities. The main task of this stage is to cultivate children's self-control ability through regular urination and urination training. If there is a psychological conflict during this stage, it will result in an anal type personality. This type of person is either too reckless and impolite, or extremely stingy and conservative. (3) Genital stage: also known as sexual bud stage, from the age of two to three years old. Freud believed that until the initial stage of the genital period, a baby's sexual energy is directed towards itself, and his happiness is self pleasure. Significant changes occurred in the later stages of the reproductive system. Children begin to point more of their sexual energy to external objects, the boy's sexual desire points to the mother, called the Oedipus complex, and the girl's desire points to the father. When a boy's desire points towards his mother, he always unconsciously competes for love and is hostile to his father. This conflict led to another complex - the castration complex. The little boy was afraid of his father, afraid that he would punish his Oedipus feelings and castrate his genitals. The little boy then gave up the Oedipus complex and assimilated with his father. The development of a girl's sexual psychology also roughly goes through a process from loving her father to abandoning her father, and assimilation with her mother. At this stage, the child's personality, gender identity, and moral conscience begin to form, which is the most important stage of life development. (4) Incubation period: After experiencing the Oedipus complex, children's sexual psychology enters the incubation period. During this period, children's sexual desire remains silent, and they are indifferent to the opposite sex. Most of them look for same-sex partners when playing games. (5) Adolescence: The puberty gonad maturation increases the libido impulse. If the psychological conflict in the genital period is successfully resolved, individuals will turn the libido energy to someone outside the family, and begin mature heterosexuality. (6) Reproductive period: In Freud's view, as long as an individual can successfully resolve all the conflicts in the above stages of sexual psychology, they can reach a perfect state. They are mature in terms of sex, social relationships, and mental health, have a strong self, and can control inappropriate sexual impulses. Freud believed that healthy people in this sense are not common. Freud's division of stages of sexual psychological development has attracted many criticisms, among which the most intense criticism focuses on the issue of infants' sexual desire. Is the happiness of infants' lips and bowel movements considered as sexual desire? Are they as important in the composition of personality as Freud claimed? Unfortunately, Freud's developmental model of sexual psychology is only a hypothesis that has not been scientifically proven; And the criticisms of his views are all based on assumptions, and there is no scientific proof.