Question

Greg, a 27-year-old man, has a habit of biting his nails. He developed this habit when he was young. Now he wants to stop it, but has no control over himself. He starts biting his nails unconsciously whenever he is anxious or bored. According to the psychosexual stages of personality development, he is fixated at the _____. qyizlet

Answer 1

Answer: Oral stage

Explanation:

According to the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, children tend to go through psychosexual stages that eventually leads to the development of their adult personality.

An erogenous zone is identified as an area that is focused on to serve as a source of pleasure in response to a stimulation.

If at a stage in development certain issues are not resolved, it is said that fixation occurs (Fixation is a focus on an earlier psychosexual stage)and until the individual resolves this conflict, the individual could remain stuck in the stage.

For Greg, he his fixated on the oral stage of the psychosexual stage, with his erogenous zone being the mouth. Oral fixation could lead to problems with eating, drinking, nail-biting or smoking.