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Essay / Freud, Piaget's theory of human development according to A...
This did not bode well for me because I felt that the attention was being diverted from me and focused on him. This caused me to misbehave, voluntarily urinating and defecating on the floor. As a young child, I was unable to see beyond my own perceptions, where I had acquired a rather self-centered aspect wondering why my parents were excited about a new baby and why we should keep him. In Piaget's psychosocial theory, a child of this age should be in the preoperative phase, where he is unable to see an event or object from someone else's point of view (Awwad, 2013). At this point in my life, I was unable to see my parents' point of view and became irritated towards my new little brother, even acting in rather disruptive ways. My bad behavior is also linked to Freud's psychosexual theory, which states that between the ages of two and four, pleasure comes from the anal erogenous zone in the form of defecation (Levesque, 2014). If I hadn't enjoyed the pleasure I felt from defecating, I doubt I would have rebelled in this way, which led me to believe that according to Freud and Erikson I was at the right developmental stage for it.