1Psychoanalysis Relating to psychosexual development before the genital phase.
〔心理分析〕性器官发育前的，性前期的
Example sentencesExamples
Gay quotes Schur's comment to Jones about Freud. ‘Altogether there are many evidences of complicated pregenital relationships with mother which perhaps he never analysed’.
In summarizing various findings, Robert Dickes states that most pregenital research stands in direct opposition to Freud, i.e., that ‘the fetish represents more than the female phallus’.
Chasseguet-Smirgel discusses the idealization of pregenital sexuality as a hallmark of the perversions.
Such a shift upsets the view taken by analysts where the notion of linear development is the norm and other sexual identities are viewed as regression to, or a fixation at a pregenital level of functioning.
2Zoology Situated in front of the genital region.
〔动〕位于生殖区前的
Definition of pregenital in US English:
pregenital
adjectiveprēˈjenədl
1Psychoanalysis Relating to psychosexual development before the genital phase.
〔心理分析〕性器官发育前的，性前期的
Example sentencesExamples
Gay quotes Schur's comment to Jones about Freud. ‘Altogether there are many evidences of complicated pregenital relationships with mother which perhaps he never analysed’.
Chasseguet-Smirgel discusses the idealization of pregenital sexuality as a hallmark of the perversions.
In summarizing various findings, Robert Dickes states that most pregenital research stands in direct opposition to Freud, i.e., that ‘the fetish represents more than the female phallus’.
Such a shift upsets the view taken by analysts where the notion of linear development is the norm and other sexual identities are viewed as regression to, or a fixation at a pregenital level of functioning.