Before revision: Fixation () is a concept (in human psychology) that was originated by Sigmund Freud (1905) to denote the persistence of anachronistic sexual traits.Salman Akhtar, Comprehensive Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (London 2009) p. 112 The term subsequently came to denote object relationships with attachments to people or things in general persisting from childhood into adult life.Salman Akhtar, Comprehensive Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (London 2009) p. 112 An autistic child, stacking cans Freud In Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905), Freud distinguished the fixations of the libido on an incestuous object from a fixation upon a specific, partial aim, such as voyeurism.Sigmund Freud, On Sexuality (Penguin Freud Library 7) pp.
After revision: Fixation () is a concept (in human psychology) that was originated by Sigmund Freud (1905) to denote the persistence of anachronistic sexual traits.Salman Akhtar, Comprehensive Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (London 2009) p. 112 The term subsequently came to denote object relationships with attachments to people or things in general persisting from childhood into adult life.Salman Akhtar, Comprehensive Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (London 2009) p. 112 Freud In Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905), Freud distinguished the fixations of the libido on an incestuous object from a fixation upon a specific, partial aim, such as voyeurism.Sigmund Freud, On Sexuality (Penguin Freud Library 7) pp.