1. Freud defines three stages of sexuality, the oral, the anal and the oedipal stage. An infant in its
oral stage learns that there is an external world through pleasure and pain. Human nature is
governed by the pleasure principle. When the infant is being breast fed he/she feels pleasure and
when pulled away from the breast the baby feels pain. The pleasure principle is a way of seeking
pleasure in order to avoid pain. We can't be happy all the time because three things threaten us.
First of all our own bodies can't handle too much pleasure at once, eventually our bodies get older
and death is inevitable. Second, natural phenomenon's get in our way, and third our relationships......

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