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'''Fixation''' in [[psychoanalysis]] relates to the [[Psychosexual development|psychosexual stages of development]]. If a person did not receive appropriate gratification during a specific stage, or that a specific stage left a particularly strong impression, that person's personality would reflect that particular stage throughout their adult life. |
'''Fixation''' in [[psychoanalysis]] relates to the [[Psychosexual development|psychosexual stages of development]]. If a person did not receive appropriate gratification during a specific stage, or that a specific stage left a particularly strong impression, that person's personality would reflect that particular stage throughout their adult life. |
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| − | So if [[libido]] remains attatched in a particular psychosexual stage of development, thoughts, feelings and actions can reflect this throughout life. eg someone fixated at an oral stage may continue to gain satisfaction through their mouths, sucking their thumb, smoking a pipe, eating lasciviously etc as adults. |
+ | So if [[libido]] remains attatched in a particular psychosexual stage of development, thoughts, feelings and actions can reflect this throughout life. eg someone fixated at an oral stage may continue to gain satisfaction through their mouths, sucking their thumb, smoking a pipe, eating lasciviously etc as adults. To the degree to which the emotions are [[cathected]]] at this [[developmental stage]] it is sometimes known as '''affective fixation'''. |
Under stress people are more likely to return to these old patterns in [[regression (psychoanalysis)|regression]]. |
Under stress people are more likely to return to these old patterns in [[regression (psychoanalysis)|regression]]. |
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==See also== |
==See also== |
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==References== |
==References== |
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Fixation in psychoanalysis relates to the psychosexual stages of development. If a person did not receive appropriate gratification during a specific stage, or that a specific stage left a particularly strong impression, that person's personality would reflect that particular stage throughout their adult life.
So if libido remains attatched in a particular psychosexual stage of development, thoughts, feelings and actions can reflect this throughout life. eg someone fixated at an oral stage may continue to gain satisfaction through their mouths, sucking their thumb, smoking a pipe, eating lasciviously etc as adults. To the degree to which the emotions are cathected] at this developmental stage it is sometimes known as affective fixation.
Under stress people are more likely to return to these old patterns in regression.
Freud developed this idea in his book Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality in 1905.