Concept
Human sexuality
Overview
form in which people experience and express themselves sexually
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The child still remains tied to his parents, but by instincts which must be described as being 'inhibited in their aim [_zielgehemmte_]'. The emotions which he feels henceforward towards these objects of his love are characterized as 'tender'. It is well known that the earlier 'sensual' tendencies remain more or less strongly preserved in the unconscious, so that in a certain sense the whole of the original current…
Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego
Close in meaning to Human sexuality; the term itself is not named.
Identification is most often used in hysteria to express sexual community. An hysterical woman identifies herself most readily--although not exclusively--with persons with whom she has had sexual relations, or who have sexual intercourse with the same persons as herself. Language takes such a conception into consideration: two lovers are "one." In the hysterical phantasy, as well as in the dream, it is sufficient…
Sigmund Freud, Dream Psychology
Close in meaning to Human sexuality; the term itself is not named.
And yet we say not only, see how it shineth, which the eyes alone can perceive; but also, see how it soundeth, see how it smelleth, see how it tasteth, see how hard it is. And so the general experience of the senses, as was said, is called The lust of the eyes, because the office of seeing, wherein the eyes hold the prerogative, the other senses by way of similitude take to themselves, when they make search after…
of Hippo Augustine, The Confessions of St. Augustine
States what Human sexuality is; the author is tied to Human sexuality in the knowledge graph.
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