How does the quality of sexual gratification differ in the ...

[swpotter12]

How does the quality of sexual gratification differ in the genital stage from previous stages?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Possible selves
 
  a. provide goals to work toward or to avoid.
  b. do not include who you think you should be.
  c. include who you could have become if you made different choices in the past.
  d. All of these answers are correct.

[jaymee143]

Answer to Question 1

Earlier attachments were narcissistic (child was interested only in her or his own sexual pleasure); other people were of interest only if they furthered child's own pleasure. In the genital stage, a desire to share mutual sexual gratification with someone else develops, and the individual becomes capable of loving others, not only for selfish reasons, but also for altruistic reasons.

Answer to Question 2

A