Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In entomology, situated before the external opening of the oviduct, sting, or male intromittent organ.
Wiktionary
- adj. Describing psychosexual development prior to the genital phase
- adj. In front of the genital region
Examples
“It then dominates a phase of the sexual life, which we shall later describe as the pregenital organization.”
“In the pregenital stage of libido development there are two important phases that enter into the stammering neurosis, namely, the earlier oral stage and the later anal-sadistic stage.”
“Reich 1974 placed the impulsive character, the neurotic character, and the psychopath between neurosis and psychosis and observed the ambivalence, hostile pregenital impulses, ego and superego deficits, immature defenses, and primitive narcissistic features of the impulsive personality.”
“Hogan 1983 examined the pregenital characteristics that distinguish between the anroexic and bulimic patient.”
““Some patients with neurotic character structures and appropriate pregenital problems may discover and use bulimia and vomiting to replace neurotic or psychosomatic symptoms and to reinforce their defenses against unwanted oedipal pressures” p.”
“Identification as development out of oral pregenital sexual organization, 59”
“[21] Cf. here the later communication on the pregenital phases of the sexual development, in which this view is confirmed.”
“A second pregenital phase is the sadistic-anal organization.”
“The assumption of the pregenital organizations of the sexual life is based on the analysis of the neuroses and hardly deserves any consideration without a knowledge of the same.”
“One of the first of such pregenital sexual organizations is the _oral_, or if we wish, the cannibalistic.”
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