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control. Is it dirty? Is it okay? Bodily expulsions Doubt are the centre of the world, and the pivot around which early character is formed. Am I pleasing my mum and dad? Are they making me feel good or bad about my bottom? Am I okay or naughty? Again the young child's actual experiences through this stage have a deep effect on the unconscious and behaviours and preferences in later life. training 3. Phallic Stage - Phallic is not restricted to boys. 3. Initiative v 3-6 yrs, preThis stage is focused on resolving reproductive Guilt school, issues. This is a sort of dry run before the real nursery game starts in adolescence. Where do babies come from? Can I have a baby? Why has dad got a willy and I've not? Why have I got a willy and mum hasn't? Why do they tell me off for touching my bits and pieces down there? (Boys) I'm going to marry mum (and maybe kill dad). (Girls) I'm in love with my dad. Oedipus Complex, Penis envy, Castration Anxiety, etc. "If you touch yourself down there it'll fall off/heal up.." Inevitably once more, experiences in this stage have a profound effect on feelings and behaviour and libido in later life. If you want to know more about all this I recommend you read about Freud, not Erikson, and I repeat that understanding Freud's psychosexual theory is not required for understanding and using Erikson's concepts. 4. Latency Stage - Sexual dormancy or 4. Industry v 5-12 yrs, repression. The focus is on learning, skills, Inferiority early school schoolwork. This is actually not a psychosexual stage because basically normally nothing formative happens sexually. Experiences, fears 567