And, from the link above, a reasonable
modern critique of the theory for you:
- Evaluation of Freud's psychosexual development theory
Four points:
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difficult to test, but the evidence that has been gathered is not favourable
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the crucial events (e.g., how the libido is used) are unobservable, and there are no good means to measure them
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there is an awfully long time between the occurence of the causal stimulus and its presumed effect; relationships between early events and later traits tend to be weak and inconsistent
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this theory of development was conceived without studying children; rather, it was developed from patients' recollections, dreams and free associations
Plus, since you MIGHT identify as homosexual and Freud does not have a good non-pathologizing explanation for that kind of attraction, YOU PERSONALLY should not look to his ideas as a source of truth regardless of the stuff about the non-testability of his ideas.
I hope it helps and hope that you will get good ideas in responses from people who report their own genuine experiences rather than engage in wild speculations.