. Failure to achieve this balance often results in a host of neuroses in the adult individual. In Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety Freud (1997) discusses inhibitions arising from inadequate development: “When activities like playing the piano, writing or even walking are subjected to neurotic inhibitions it is because the physical organs brought into play-the fingers or the legs-have become too strongly eroticized. It has been discovered as a general fact that the ego-function of an organ is impaired if its erotogenicity-its sexual significance-is increased” (6).
Freud’s psychosexual stages of deve
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