PSYCHOSEXUAL DEVELOPMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does psychosexual development mean? 

• PSYCHOSEXUAL DEVELOPMENT (noun)
  The noun PSYCHOSEXUAL DEVELOPMENT has 1 sense:

1. (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

  Familiarity information: PSYCHOSEXUAL DEVELOPMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PSYCHOSEXUAL DEVELOPMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("psychosexual development" is a kind of...):

development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)

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)