NOUN | process | psychosexual development | (psychoanalysis) the process during which personality and sexual behavior mature through a series of stages / stages |
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Meaning | (psychoanalysis) the process during which personality and sexual behavior mature through a series of stages / stages: first oral stage and then anal stage and then phallic stage and then latency stage and finally genital stage. | |
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Category | psychoanalysis, analysis, depth psychology | A set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders |
Broader | growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis | (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically |
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