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Noun: psychosexual development
  1. (psychoanalysis) the process during which personality and sexual behaviour mature through a series of stages: first oral stage and then anal stage and then phallic stage and then latency stage and finally genital stage

Derived forms: psychosexual developments

Type of: development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny

Encyclopedia: Psychosexual development

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