infantile sexuality

infantile sexuality
infantile sexuality n needs and strivings in infancy and early childhood that exist according to psychoanalytic theory for libidinal gratification: pregenital eroticism

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in freudian theory, the erotic life of infants and children, encompassing the oral, anal, and phallic stages of psychosexual development.

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