genitality

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noun In psychoanalytic theory, the part of sexuality that relates to the genitalia.
noun In Reichian psychoanalysis, the integrated function of the entire sexual apparatus; as opposed to pregenitality, neurosis. Note that in this use, sexuality oriented on the genitalia may not by itself constitute genitality, i.e. phallicism would be considered a pregenitally functioning sexuality.
noun The ability to attain erotic sensation in the genitalia.

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That doesn't mean that our sexuality must always be expressed through our genitality (ph).

CNN Transcript Feb 15, 2002 2002
The defenses of latency are often insufficient to protect the teenage patient from the rearousal of oedipal incestuous feelings, increased genitality and pubescent hormonal changes.

Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986
In a workshop discussion at the American Psychoanalytic Association meeting, December 1970, it was readily agreed that there is now much more acting out in the broad use of the term of what used to be repressed, and repression is now directed not so much against genitality as against object relationships.

Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986
L. J. Kaplan (1984 emphasized the difference between the original separation-individuation of infancy and that during adolescence: “Adolescent individuation … involves the reconciliation of genitality with morality” (p.

Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986