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infantile sexuality

 
Sci-Tech Dictionary: infantile sexuality
(′in·fən′tīl ′sek·shə′wal·əd·ē)

(psychology) An infant's or child's capacity for and enjoyment of activities and experiences that are essentially sexual.


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In psychoanalytic theory, the overlapping oral, anal, and phallic phases of psychosexual development that occur during the first 5 years of life.

 
 

 

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