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Definition of Psychosexuality
1. Noun. The mental representation of sexual activities.
Derivative terms: Psychosexual
Definition of Psychosexuality
1. Noun. The psychological aspects of sexuality. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Psychosexuality
1. [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Psychosexuality
Literary usage of Psychosexuality
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fundamental Conceptions of Psychoanalysis by Abraham Arden Brill (1921)
"The problem is more complicated when we come to prophylaxis in relation to
psychosexuality and I regret that I am unable to enter here into a long ..."
2. The Psychoanalytic Method by Oskar Pfister (1917)
"... preferably, of psychosexuality, putting emphasis on the fact that one should
not overlook nor undervalue the mental factor of the sexual life. ..."
3. Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud (1919)
"... THE SAVAGE'S DREAD OF INCEST of psychic infantilism ; he has either not been \
I able to free himself from the childlike conditions of psychosexuality, ..."
4. American Medicine (1911)
"... normal or perverse partial impulses of sexuality, I naturally thought that
there must be a marked sadistic component in the patient's psychosexuality. ..."
5. Impotence and Sterility: With Aberrations of the Sexual Function and Sex by George Frank Lydston (1917)
"Once psychosexuality has developed and impressed the animal during the period of
growth, Fig. 1.—Capon used in experiments I and IV. the results of its ..."
6. Problems in Dynamic Psychology: A Critique of Psychoanalysis and Suggested by John Thompson MacCurdy (1922)
"psychosexuality has to begin sometime. If it appeared only at physiological
puberty, the individual would suddenly be confronted with a new instinct, ..."
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