Concept
Sexual identity
Overview
how a person thinks of oneself with regard to romantic and sexual orientation and behaviour
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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 Sexual identity; the term itself is not named.
This new stage is called _narcism_, in view of the pathological fixation of this condition which may be observed later on. The individual acts as if he were in love with himself; for the purposes of our analysis the ego impulses and the libidinous wishes cannot yet be separated from each other. Although this narcistic stage, in which the hitherto dissociated sexual impulses combine into a unity and take the ego as…
Sigmund Freud, Totem and taboo
States what Sexual identity is.
The previously unstable attitude towards women begins to waver under such conditions. If the lability of the attitude towards the other sex is very great then it does not need even a war trauma to cause a neurosis to break out in such men. For instance, I observed a man who on return from furlough at home had a convulsive attack and was brought into the hospital showing signs of anxiety and depression.
Sándor Ferenczi, Psycho-Analysis and the War Neuroses
Close in meaning to Sexual identity; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Sexual identity
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Place in the tradition
Part of Philosophy of sex.