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psychosexuality

Definitions

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  • noun The psychological aspects of sexuality.

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  • noun the mental representation of sexual activities

Etymologies

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From psycho- +‎ sexuality.

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Examples

  • Since then it has become possible through the analysis of some cases of nervous disease in the delicate age of childhood to gain a direct understanding of the infantile psychosexuality (Jahrbuch für psychoanalytische und psychopathologische Forschungen, Bd. 1, 2, 1909).

    Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex Sigmund Freud 1897

  • Perhaps the American writer A.M. Homes captures pre-adolescent psychosexuality best in her story

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed LYNN CROSBIE 2011

  • This was an ocean of sound and emotion and twisted psychosexuality into which I dove, in which I swam, and occasionally sank.

    Long Island Press 2009

  • This was an ocean of sound and emotion and twisted psychosexuality into which I dove, in which I swam, and occasionally sank.

    Long Island Press 2009

  • This was an ocean of sound and emotion and twisted psychosexuality into which I dove, in which I swam, and occasionally sank.

    Long Island Press 2009

  • This was an ocean of sound and emotion and twisted psychosexuality into which I dove, in which I swam, and occasionally sank.

    Long Island Press 2009

  • This was an ocean of sound and emotion and twisted psychosexuality into which I dove, in which I swam, and occasionally sank.

    Long Island Press 2009

  • Add perspiration, stir in Freudian psychosexuality, and peel the spermy skin off the boiled milk, and let no one say the flashback reverie is dead as a dramatic device.

    the latest from teenvogue.com James Wolcott 2009

  • [193] Yet other writers have proposed that fiction depicting male homosexuality for women readers ( "slash" fiction, of which YAOI is one kind) is attractive to women because evolved female psychosexuality creates a desire to root sexual relationships in tested and trustworthy friendships.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008

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