psychosexual development
noun
Simple meaning
The progressive evolution of infantile sexuality through oral, anal, phallic, latent, and genital phases.
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IPA pronunciation (US)
ˈsaɪkoʊˈsɛkʃuəldɪvɛləpmənt
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Definition
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noun
psychology
The progressive evolution of infantile sexuality through oral, anal, phallic, latent, and genital phases.
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
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