In psychoanalysis, psychosexual development is a central element of the sexual drive theory. According to Freud, personality develops through a series...

atypical genitalia often cause confusion and distress for the family. Psychosexual development is influenced by numerous factors that include, but are not limited...

pleasure that a person experiences is represented by a stage of psychosexual development. These stages symbolize the process of arriving to become a maturing...

Psychosexual disorder is a sexual problem that is psychological, rather than physiological in origin. "Psychosexual disorder" was a term used in Freudian...

eight stages of psychosocial development. Erikson was originally influenced by Sigmund Freud's psychosexual stages of development. He began by working with...

The anal stage is the second stage in Sigmund Freud's theory of psychosexual development, taking place approximately between the ages of 18 months and three...

(German: Penisneid) is a stage in Sigmund Freud's theory of female psychosexual development, in which young girls experience anxiety upon realization that...

hostility toward his father, first formed during the phallic stage of psychosexual development. A daughter's attitude of desire for her father and hostility toward...

Freudian psychoanalysis, the phallic stage is the third stage of psychosexual development, spanning the ages of three to six years, wherein the infant's...

form, and it alone is the essence of dreaming". Freud's theory of psychosexual development proposes that following on from the initial polymorphous perversity...

term used by Sigmund Freud to describe the final stage of human psychosexual development. The individual develops a strong sexual interest in people outside...

Freudian psychoanalysis, the term oral stage denotes the first psychosexual development stage wherein the mouth of the infant is their primary erogenous...

stage is the fourth stage of Sigmund Freud's model of a child's psychosexual development. Freud believed that the child discharges their libido (sexual...

Psychoanalysis, is a girl's psychosexual competition with her mother for possession of her father. In the course of her psychosexual development, the complex is the...

fixated or "stuck" in that stage. Freud's theory and work with psychosexual development led to Neo-Analytic/Neo-Freudians who also believed in the importance...

one of the most important incentives of life. Freud's theory of psychosexual development is represented by five stages. According to Freud, each stage occurs...

begin between the ages of 3 and 5, during the phallic stage of psychosexual development. In Freud's theory, it is the child's perception of anatomical...

healthy development of children, others propose stages that are characterized by a maturity rarely reached before old age. The psychosexual stage theory...

mechanism involving the reversion of the ego to an earlier stage of psychosexual development, as a reaction to an overwhelming external problem or internal...

Development of the human body is the process of growth to maturity. The process begins with fertilization, where an egg released from the ovary of a female...

(On the symbolic order, see, in particular, the Lacan module on psychosexual development.) As Kristeva puts it, "Abjection preserves what existed in the...

Child development stages are the theoretical milestones of child development, some of which are asserted in nativist theories. This article discusses the...

psychoanalysis, hypothesized that the anal stage of childhood psychosexual development was marked by the predominance of anal eroticism. In 1973, the...

adolescere 'to mature') is a transitional stage of physical and psychological development that generally occurs during the period from puberty to adulthood (typically...

psychologists have even suggested genital play is a sign of healthy psychosexual development. Though genital play may rarely evolve directly into masturbation...

the defenses available to the ego, linked them to the stages of psychosexual development during which they originated, and identified various psychopathological...

Human embryonic development or human embryogenesis is the development and formation of the human embryo. It is characterised by the processes of cell...

another individual to smoke psychosexual development: phenomena in the oral and phallic stages of childhood development, based on Freudian theory sadomasochism:...

to Victorian prudishness, and his theory of psychosexual development proposed a model for the development of sexual orientations and desires; children...

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