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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 pleasure
Familiarity information: PHALLIC STAGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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