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ORAL STAGE [2 records]

Record 1 1999-09-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rules of Court
OBS

of the proceedings.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Règles de procédure

Spanish

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Record 2 1995-11-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Human Behaviour
DEF

stage of personality development, the earliest one during infancy, in which the desire for nourishment of the senses ... is dominant.

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

période initiale du développement de l'affectivité. Les premières relations de l'enfant avec le monde extérieur s'ordonnent autour du plaisir de la succion et de la présence maternelle.

Spanish

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