Definition of Genital stage

1. Noun. (psychoanalysis) the fifth sexual and social stage in a person's development occurring during adolescence; interest focuses on sexual activity.

Exact synonyms: Genital Phase
Category relationships: Analysis, Depth Psychology, Psychoanalysis
Group relationships: Adolescence
Generic synonyms: Phase, Stage

Medical Definition of Genital stage

1. Referring to the psychic organization derived from, and characteristic of, the Freudian genital period of the infant's psychosocial organization. See: genitality. See: anality, orality. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genital Stage

geniting
genitings

Literary usage of Genital stage

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1. A General introduction to psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud (1920)
"... observed from the standpoint of the later genital stage, is the expression of an instinct to mastery, which may border on cruelty. ..."

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