Libido from 0 to 8 months {oral period} is for sucking and biting.
Libido from 8 months up to 2 years {anal stage} is for controlling defecation. Toilet training can have praise and blame, block anal pleasure, and cause revulsion.
Libido from 2 to 4 years {phallic stage} is for contacting opposite-sex parent and playing with genitals. Parent can suppress these.
Libido from 4 to 14 years {latency period} is for socialization, play with same-sex children, and dislike of opposite sex. Sexuality is low.
Children can identify with same-sex parent, to resolve conflict between desire for opposite-sex parent and fear of retaliation {Oedipus complex} {Electra complex}. Children are hostile towards same-sex parent and have sexual impulses towards opposite-sex parent.
Oedipus-complex resolution can be unsuccessful {castration complex}.
Libido at puberty {genital phase} is for heterosexual love.
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