oral stage

     

The oral stage in psychology is the term use by Sigmund Freud to describe the child's development during the first 18 months of life, in which an infant's pleasure centers are in the mouth. This is the first of Freud's psychosexual stages.

Trivia about oral stage

  • The first of Freud's psychosexual stages, it roughly corresponds to a child's first year
  • Babies are in this "mouthy" stage according to psychoanalytic theory
  • In psychoanalytic theory, it's the first & most primitive stage of development

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