Fixation (psychology)

Fixation is a term from the psychoanalytic theory of neurosis Sigmund Freud.

According to his theory of psychosexual development, man lives in five phases:

• Oral stage ( 1st year )
• Anal phase (2nd - 3rd year)
• Phallic stage (4th - 5th year)
• Latency phase (6th - 13th year)
• Genital phase (from 14 years )

Non-satisfaction of the phases for each characteristic needs is a traumatic experience that leads to fixation, so standing still at this stage of development. Latency and genital phase has covered only briefly Freud.

From the modern experimental psychology could not be confirmed Freud's ideas.

Fixation of the oral phase

An " oral character " is passive, dependent, demanding, jealous, selfish, etc., and can manifest itself in excessive eating, drinking, smoking, etc..

Fixation of the anal stage

The " anal character " is meticulous, orderly, compulsive, frugal, stubborn, etc.

"If a forced ill be punished for aggressive thoughts as if he would have realized it, then this is for fixation or regression to the level of development of the so-called" anal phase "held. During this phase is to apply that talking, thinking and acting relatively. indiscriminately for each other are [ ... ] He who says to another: " I curse you!", assumes that his utterance is true, otherwise the project would be pointless [ ... ] Because of the unconscious. equation of thought and action, it is imperative that he must be punished. " This is so at an age typical of the anal phase form of the omnipotence of thoughts.

Fixation of the phallic phase

In the time of the phallic phase of the Oedipus conflict which, if not coping leads to success -obsessed, ruthless, combative " phallic character " falls.

Source

Krause, Rainer. (1998). General psychoanalytic nosology. ( Volume 2). Carbon Hammer: Stuttgart. P.49 and 87

• Psychoanalysis