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PHALLIC STAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does phallic stage mean? 

PHALLIC STAGE (noun)
  The noun PHALLIC STAGE has 1 sense:

1. (psychoanalysis) the third stage in a child's development when awareness of and manipulation of the genitals is supposed to be a primary source of pleasureplay

  Familiarity information: PHALLIC STAGE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PHALLIC STAGE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(psychoanalysis) the third stage in a child's development when awareness of and manipulation of the genitals is supposed to be a primary source of pleasure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

phallic phase; phallic stage

Hypernyms ("phallic stage" is a kind of...):

phase; stage (any distinct time period in a sequence of events)

Domain category:

analysis; depth psychology; psychoanalysis (a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud)

Holonyms ("phallic stage" is a part of...):

childhood (the time of person's life when they are a child)


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