infantile sexuality

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infantile sexuality: see psychoanalysis psychoanalysis, name given by Sigmund Freud to a system of interpretation and therapeutic treatment of psychological disorders. Psychoanalysis began after Freud studied (1885–86) with the French neurologist J. M.
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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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No references found			While Freud explained psychological symptoms mainly in terms of repressed infantile sexuality, Jung reached out rather more optimistically, as much forward as backward, into the lives of his clients. Jung and Analytical Psychology by Francis Adam / Health, general community This fear seems to have always existed, although somewhat tempered with Freud's studies on infantile sexuality, but the internet has renewed the fear by providing a venue and institutional framework for the child's psycho-social development--at least partially informed by sexuality. Mourning and Misfortune: 9/11 and the domestic terror of pedophilia by Tubrett, Dion / CineAction Adler seceded from him because he rejected the Freudian libido theory, uniquely based on infantile sexuality, He was impressed by the teachings of the then popular philosopher Nietzsche, who idolised the 'will to power' (Wille zur Macht) theory. Inferiority complex by Bucher, Marcel / Swiss News			infall zone infallibility infamous infancy Infant infant botulism Infant Feeding Infant Feeding Center Infant Mortality infant respiratory distress syndrome infant school infanta infante Infanticide infantile amaurotic familial idiocy infantile autism infantile celiac disease infantile cortical hyperostosis infantile diarrhea Infantile Dystrophy infantile eczema infantile genitalia infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy infantile paralysis infantile scurvy infantile sexuality infantile spasm Infantilism Infantry Infantry Combat Vehicle Infants Home Infanzones Infarct infarction Infauna infeasible path infect Infection infectious infectious abortion infectious anemia infectious arthritis Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis infectious bronchitis infectious canine hepatitis infectious chlorosis infectious conjunctivitis infectious disease Infectious Diseases infectious drug resistance infectious endocarditis			infantile pelvis Infantile Perianal Pyramidal Protrusion infantile poliomyelitis Infantile polyarteritis Infantile polyarteritis Infantile Polyarthritis Infantile Polycystic Kidney Disease Infantile polycystic kidneys Infantile polycystic kidneys infantile progressive spinal muscular atrophy infantile purulent conjunctivitis infantile pustular dermatosis infantile pustular dermatosis infantile pustular dermatosis Infantile Refractory Grand Mal Syndrome Infantile Refsum disease Infantile Refsum disease Infantile Refsum disease Infantile rose infantile s infantile s infantile s Infantile Scoliosis Outreach Program infantile scurvy infantile scurvy infantile scurvy infantile scurvy Infantile seborrhoeic eczema Infantile seborrhoeic eczema Infantile seborrhoeic eczema infantile sexuality infantile spasm infantile spasm Infantile spasms Infantile spasms Infantile spasms infantile speech infantile speech infantile speech infantile speech Infantile spinal muscular atrophy infantile spinal paralysis infantile uterus Infantile-onset Ascending Spastic Paralysis Infantile-Onset Multisystem Inflammatory Disease Infantile-Onset Spinocerebellar Ataxia infantilisation infantilise infantilised infantilises infantilising infantilism infantilism infantilism infantilism infantilities infantilities infantilities infantility infantility infantility

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