Definition of Psychosexual

1. Adjective. Of or relating to the mental or emotional attitudes about sexuality.

Partainyms: Psychosexuality
Derivative terms: Psychosexuality

Definition of Psychosexual

1. Adjective. Of or relating to the psychological aspect or aspects of sexuality. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Psychosexual

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Psychosexual

psychophysically
psychophysicist
psychophysics
psychophysiological
psychophysiologically
psychophysiologist
psychophysiologists
psychophysiology
psychopolitical
psychopolitics
psychopomp
psychopomps
psychorubin
psychos
psychoses
psychosine
psychosines
psychosiphobia
psychosis
psychosocial
psychosocially
psychosociological
psychosociology
psychosomatic
psychosomatic disorder

Literary usage of Psychosexual

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Impotence and Sterility: With Aberrations of the Sexual Function and Sex by George Frank Lydston (1917)
"... psychosexual differentiation with imperfect physical differentiation. Sexual organs of normal form, but undeveloped. called by some of the lads QÍ the ..."

2. The Theory of Psychoanalysis by Carl Gustav Jung (1915)
"But the psychosexual meaning of the thunderstorm is not known to everyone. In view of the psychological situation just described, we must attribute to the ..."

3. Nervous and mental disease monograph series (1915)
"The stork is just the same thing, a winged phallus, the psychosexual meaning ... But the psychosexual meaning of the thunderstorm is not known to everyone. ..."

4. The Sexual life of the child by Albert Moll (1919)
"In both sexes alike it is usual for psychosexual phenomena to manifest themselves before the erotic dream makes its appearance ; a boy, for instance, ..."

5. The Modern Treatment of Nervous and Mental Diseases by William Alanson White, Smith Ely Jelliffe (1913)
"It is on these grounds that much facile and conventional advice given to psychosexual patients is misplaced and even mischievous. This may hold good, ..."

6. Diseases of the nervous system by Smith Ely Jelliffe, William Alanson White (1917)
"The individual in his psychosexual development passes through an auto-erotic period ... This fixation not only prevents the proper psychosexual development, ..."

7. The British Gynaecological Journal by British Gynaecological Society (1904)
"Their organisation is bisexual, the psychosexual centre only developing at the age of puberty, and the evolution of the sexual glands proceeding quite ..."

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