A child in the oral stage of development cries and cries to be fed, but the child's needs are continually frustrated.Freud would predict the child will develop a:

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The frustration of the child's needs during the oral stage may result in a fixation, which means that the child may have an ongoing focus on oral stimulation and may have difficulty moving on to subsequent stages of development. This fixation may manifest as oral behaviors such as thumb-sucking or chewing on objects. Rationalization, projection, and sublimation are defense mechanisms that develop later in life during the phallic, latency, and genital stages, respectively.

A Child in the Oral Stage of Development Cries and Cries