Theories of Child Development
Freud theory (psychosexual development) Proposed by the famous psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, the theory of psychosexual development describes how personality develops during childhood. Freud believed that personality develops through a series of childhood stages in which the pleasure-seeking energies of the id become focused on certain erogenous areas. Freud described three levels of consciousness: the id, which controls physical need and instincts of the body; the ego, th