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Erikson Vs. Freud These two most widely known psychologists created their own development steps that human beings take throughout life. While in some ways similar these two methods differ from each other in many other ways. Erikson, being a student of Freud, took inspiration from him when creating his own process. They both follow similar timelines but differ in the focus on the sequence of life events. One of the major differences between the two is that Erikson believed that personality development occurs throughout your life but Freud thought that it only took place in childhood. Subsequently, Freud’s development steps ended around age 21 but Erikson’s lasted until what he called late adulthood which was age 65- death. Freud believed that in order to become a well-round adult you had to graduate through each of his five steps: Oral, Anal, Phallic, latent, and Genital. If you did not graduate from one of these stages you then would not have developed properly. Erikson on the other hand followed a sequence of the development of their connection with the world around them, their peers, and themselves.