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- noun psychology The pattern of deriving adult
sexual arousal from objects that one was exposed to as an infant. Thefetish value often stems from tactile stimulation similar to that experienced by the infant before it could see well. - noun psychology In
Freudian theory, the relation between bodily functions in early childhood and the later development of the sexual instinct. The infant's bodily function of simple hunger, to take a primary example, is at first attached solely to the act of suckling at mother's breast.
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