Question

Five-year-old Dustin has recently become very possessive of his mother and jealous of his father. He is sometimes openly hostile, telling his father, "Don't kiss my Mommy!" According to Freud, Dustin is in the _____ stage of psychosexual development and is showing manifestations of _____.

Answer 1

Phallic

Oedipus complex.

Step-by-step explanation:

Sigmund Freud was the founder of the psychoanalytic school of therapy which focuses on the unconscious which dictates most of our behavior and also focuses on the events from our childhood and how these events affect our adult behavior.

According to Freud, we go through a psychosexual development which takes place since we are born and until adolescence and adulthood.

The Phallic stage takes place between 3 and 6 years of age. The main event during this stage is the Oedipus complex during which the boys start seeing their fathers as rivals for the love of the mother, so they want to have the mother and take the place of the father. We can see that during this stage, boys become very possessive of their mothers and become jealous of their father.

In this example, Dustin is five-year-old and he is very possessive of his mother and jealous of his father. We can see that, because of his age and behavior he is in the Phallic stage of psychosexual development and is showing manifestations of Oedipus complex