ORALSTAGE
Oral stage
In Freudian psychoanalysis, the term oral stage denotes the first psychosexual development stage where in the mouth of the infant is his or her primary erogenous zone. Spanning the life period from birth to the age of 21 months, the oral stage is the first of the five Freudian psychosexual development stages: the Oral, the Anal, the Phallic, the Latent, and the Genital. Moreover, because it is the infant’s first human relationship — biological and psychological — its duration depends upon the child-rearing mores of the mother’s society. Sociologically, the duration of infantile nursing is determined normatively, because the oral stage is especially important in ...The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Oral stage
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