Question

Clarissa always needs to have something in her mouth. She is trying to give up smoking, but can't get throughout the day without sucking or chewing on her nails, pencils, or any other object she can get her hands on. Freud would suggest that Clarissa may be fixated in the _____ of psychosexual development.

Answer 1

Answer:

oral                              

Explanation:

Sigmund Freud was one of the most influential and famous psychologists who has developed the psychoanalytic theory in which he has given five different psychosexual stages.

Oral stage: According to the psychosexual stages, the oral stage is the first stage that occurs in a child's life and it develops from the birth of a child and lasts through the twelfth or eighteenth month of the child's life. At this stage, a child is orally gratified. Freud argued that through the mouth a child connects himself or herself with the object of libido i.e, the mother's breast.

Oral fixation results in an urge for constant oral stimulation, for example, smoking, nail-biting, alcoholism, etc.

In the question above, Freud would suggest that Clarissa may be fixated in the oral stage of psychosexual development.