The baby’s orality period is from 0 to 18 months after birth.
According to the theory of stages of psychosexual development proposed by Freud, the stages of children’s sexual development are divided into five stages: the oral, anal, bud (pre-genital), latency, and genital stages. The orality stage is the most primitive stage of an individual’s psychological development, relying on oral activities such as swallowing, chewing, and sucking to gain satisfaction, such as infants sucking on breast milk or liking to bite things.
At this time, children are in a state of no mobility, the oral cavity is the center of life, to meet the physical and mental needs of infants and young children from 0 to 18 months, such as sucking breastmilk, crying, biting, and other behaviors are carried out through the oral cavity, so this period is called the orality period.
If the oral needs of infants and toddlers are not satisfied at this stage, it is easy to leave a negative impact, and the gluttony and alcoholism of adults may be related to the inhibition of this stage; if the needs are over-satisfied, it may lead to the psychological growth of infants and toddlers to stay in this stage, and the phenomenon of “fixation” occurs.