Two-year-old damien frequently refuses to obey his parents. it's his way of demonstrating independence from their control. freud would have suggested that damien is going through the stage of development.

Freud would have suggested that the fact that two-year old Damien refuses to obey his parents and demonstrates independence from their control, Damien is going through the ana l stage of development. The ana l stage is the second stage in Sigmund Freud's theory of psychosexual development in which the child's main concerns are with the processes of elimination.