An oral fixation can result if a person doesn’t receive certain stimuli as a child. It can lead to unusual habits in adulthood, such as nail biting and eating ice. In the early 1900s, psychoanalyst ...
Oral fixation may occur if a person’s needs are not met during a specific stage of childhood development, according to a theory introduced by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. Oral fixations include habits ...