Noun: psychosexual development
- (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
"Freud's theory of psychosexual development has been both influential and controversial in the field of psychology"
Derived forms: psychosexual developments
Type of: development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny
Encyclopedia: Psychosexual development