-
Essay / Sigmund Freud's Psychosexual Stages of Personality
The anal stage is the second psychosexual stage and it occurs between eighteen months and three years of age. At this stage, the erogenous zone is the anus where a person can achieve fixation by holding on or letting go while being potty trained at this stage. At this stage the conscious level that develops is the ego which is the reality principle present at all levels of the personality. The ego is present to contain the impulses given by the DI and to express them in a more socially acceptable way. The ego gives delayed gratification instead of instant gratification like ID does. The trait that can be developed with anal fixation is the anal retention trait. When someone is anal retentive, they are stubborn, controlling, extremely clean, and a perfectionist. These traits are clearly visible in the clips “Democracy” and “Sandwich”. In democracy, as previously stated, Sheldon shows his authoritarian and perfectionist personalism when he orders the entire group to take the train instead of the plane like the rest of the group wanted. At Sandwich, he ordered a sandwich and got exactly what he wanted, but in the wrong order. They had put the cheese and lettuce in the wrong order, so he just decides not to eat them. This clip illustrates his stubbornness and perfectionist personality. This personality is in fact the one that we can see in each clip, thus being its main