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GENITAL STAGE [6 records]

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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 2011-08-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
DEF

In Freud's psychoanalytical theory, the mental and emotional stages of sexual development, including oral stage, anal stage, phallic stage, latency stage, and genital stage.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 3 2000-02-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sexology
DEF

The type of object love characteristic of the genital or adult stage.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sexologie

Spanish

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Record 4 1998-08-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Human Behaviour
DEF

The period in an infant’s life when he is supposed to be preoccupied with the pleasurable feelings connected with the anus and with the process of defecation.

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

Phase du développement psychosexuel de l'enfant centré sur les fonctions excrémentielles en composantes à la fois érotique et agressive qui s'étend de l'âge d'un à deux ans et demi environ.

Spanish

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Record 5 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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Record 6 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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