Question

Steven and Joe are very bad roommates. Steven is incredibly disorganized and messy, whereas Joe is compulsive in his work and insists that the room be completely tidy at all times. According to Freud, it is possible that both Steven and Joe are fixated at the ____ stage

Answer 1

Answer:

An al.

Explanation:

According to Sigmund Freud, an individual's personality is developed over the course of his/her childhood through a series of stages which are called psychosexual stages.

At the an al stage, Freud focus on a child's ability to control his/her bladder and bowel movements and the ability to use the toilet at the right time. He believes that parents who respond with care and encouragement to the child during toilet training tends to develop the child into orderly, tidy, and obsessive person.

On the other hand, parents who punish or shame a child for not using toilet appropriately or at the right time tends to develop a child into messy, disorganized and destructive when he/she grows up.