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Definition of Psychosexual development
1. Noun. (psychoanalysis) the process during which personality and sexual behavior mature through a series of stages: first oral stage and then anal stage and then phallic stage and then latency stage and finally genital stage.
Generic synonyms: Development, Growing, Growth, Maturation, Ontogenesis, Ontogeny
Definition of Psychosexual development
1. Noun. (psychology) The progressive evolution of infantile sexuality through oral, anal, phallic, latent, and genital phases. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Psychosexual Development
Literary usage of Psychosexual development
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diseases of the nervous system by Smith Ely Jelliffe, William Alanson White (1917)
"Herein Freud voiced the view that paranoia was dependent upon a homosexual fixation
in the psychosexual development of the individual. ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"... or whether there are certain somatic structural anomalies which do not permit
proper psychosexual development into normal adult life one cannot say. ..."
3. Papers on Psycho-analysis by Ernest Jones (1918)
"... the great irregularity of the fixations in the psychosexual development, so
that manifestations may be simultaneously seen relating to all stages of ..."
4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1913)
"... choice of the time must be guided more especially by the indications of
psychosexual development ; " '' it has not been proved that masturbation during ..."
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