Facts about Psychoanalytic Theory

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   Freud's psychoanalytic theory posits five stages of psychosexual development: oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital, through which personality is shaped in childhood.

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   Anna Freud expanded psychoanalytic theory by systematically cataloguing and elaborating defense mechanisms in her 1936 book The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense.

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   Psychoanalytic theory introduced the concept of defense mechanisms, such as repression and projection, as unconscious strategies the ego uses to manage anxiety.

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   The structural model in psychoanalytic theory divides the mind into three agencies: the id, ego, and superego, introduced by Freud in his 1923 work The Ego and the Id.

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   Sigmund Freud developed psychoanalytic theory in the late 19th century, proposing that unconscious conflicts rooted in childhood experiences drive human behavior.

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