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PHALLIC STAGE [2 records]

Record 1 2012-01-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Human Behaviour
CONT

Psychoanalytic theory, as first offered by Freud, assumes that the child passes through a series of stages ... During the final and so-called genital stage of development, gratification is said to be sought in a love relationship with another.

CONT

Freudians claim that in normal development the child undergoes the invariant transition from a so-called oral stage to an anal stage to a genital stage, and they attribute various aspects of psychological dysfunctions in the adult to an earlier failure to move successfully from one stage to the next.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comportement humain
DEF

[...] dernier stade de la sexualité infantile avant la puberté pendant lequel les pulsions sexuelles s'organisent sous le primat de la génitalité.

Spanish

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Record 2 1977-10-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Clinical Psychology
DEF

That stage of libidinal development in which libidinal and aggressive energies are concentrated mainly in the genital area (penis and clitoris); the phallic phase follows the anal phase and is generally in evidence during the period of four to six years of age.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie clinique
DEF

(...) dernière phase d'organisation infantile de la libido, après les stades oral et anal, où les pulsions instinctives sont axées sur la zone génitale.

Spanish

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