When utilizing Freud's psychoanalytical/psychosocial theory, the nurse recalls that

a. Adult personality is the result of resolved conflicts between sources of sexual pleasure and the mandates of reality.
b. Development occurs throughout the life span and focuses on psychosocial stages.
c. The genital stage precedes the phallic stage of development.
d. Problems evident in adult life are due to early successes and resolution of earlier developmental stages.


A
Freud believed that adult personality is the result of how an individual resolved conflicts between sources of sexual pleasure and the mandates of reality. Freud had a strong influence on Erik Erikson, but Erikson's theory differed from Freud's in that it focused on psychosocial stages rather than psychosexual stages. Freud's five stages of psychoanalytical development in sequential order include oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital. The phallic stage precedes the genital stage. In theory, problems in adult life would be due to unresolved conflicts and failures.

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