psychosexual development

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Definition of psychosexual development in English English dictionary

The progressive evolution of infantile sexuality through oral, anal, phallic, latent, and genital phases

(psychoanalysis) the process during which personality and sexual behavior 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

Hyphenation

psy·cho·sex·u·al de·ve·lop·ment