What perspective holds that abnormal behavior stems from childhood conflicts over opposing wishes regarding sex and aggression?

Psychoanalytic Perspective: The perspective that suggests that abnormal behavior stems from childhood conflicts over opposing wishes regarding sex and aggression.

Accordingto Freud, children pass through a series of stages in which sexual and aggressive impulses take different forms and produce conflicts that require resolution. If these childhood conflicts are not dealt with uccessfully, they remain unresolved in the unconscious and eventually bring about abnormal behavior during adulthood.