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Sigmund Freud's major theory is the psychoanalytic theory. The psychoanalytic theory is a grand theory of human development that holds that irrational, unconscious, drives and motives, many of which originate in childhood, underlie human behavior. The project of the psychoanalytic theory is to describe how the gendered and sexual object is formed. Based on the psychoanalytic theory, how an individual experiences and resolves conflicts such as weaning, toilet training, and sexual curiosity determines that individuals lifelong personality and patterns of behavior.
The psychoanalytic theory sees these drives and motives as the foundation for the stages of development that every human experiences in sequence, from infancy to adulthood. During each stage, an unsuccessful completion means that a child becomes fixated on that particular sexually sensitive zone and either over or under indulges once he or she becomes an adult.
According to Freud, development in the first six years occurs......

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