anaclitism (English, noun)
expansion: anaclitism (countable and uncountable, plural anaclitisms)
Senses:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The pattern of deriving adult sexual arousal from objects that one was exposed to as an infant. The fetish value often stems from tactile stimulation similar to that experienced by the infant before it could see well.
tags: countable
uncountable
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: In Freudian theory, the relation between bodily functions in early childhood and the later development of the sexual instinct. The infant's bodily function of simple hunger, to take a primary example, is at first attached solely to the act of suckling at mother's breast.
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: anaclitisms
tags: plural