(psychoanalysis) the third stage in a child's development when awareness of and manipulation of the genitals is supposed to be a primary source of pleasure
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phallic stage::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | phallic phase |
| Type of | phase, stage |
Examples of phallic stage
phallic stage
One massive phallic telescope, a moon and a canopy of stars dominated the stage.
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Freud believed gender identity developed during the phallic stage of development.
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In a boy, a phallic-stage fixation might lead him to become a vain, over-ambitious man.
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In a boy, a phallic-stage fixation might be conducive to becoming a vain, over-ambitious man.
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The latency phase originates during the phallic stage when the child's Oedipus complex begins to dissolve.
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In a boy, a phallic-stage fixation might lead him to become an aggressive, over-ambitious, vain man.
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The theory suggests that the penis becomes the organ of principal interest to both sexes in the phallic stage.
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Then, the young child develops an interest in its genitalia as a site of pleasure known as the phallic stage.
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In the phallic stage, a boy's decisive psychosexual experience is the Oedipus complex, his son-father competition for possession of mother.
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As in the phallic stage, the genital stage is centered upon the genitalia, but the sexuality is consensual and adult, rather than solitary and infantile.
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Nonetheless, Freud's successors criticise the phallic stage theoretical constructs, because their logic presents women who are vaginally-and clitorally-orgasmic, as psychosexually immature.
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The third stage of psychosexual development is the phallic stage, spanning the ages of three to six years, wherein the child's genitalia are his or her primary erogenous zone.
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Analogously, in the phallic stage, a girl's decisive psychosexual experience is the Electra complex, her daughter-mother competition for psychosexual possession of father.
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Moreover, after the phallic stage, the girl's psychosexual development includes transferring her primary erogenous zone from the infantile clitoris to the adult vagina.
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