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Article: Sexuality
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- International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
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SEXUALITY
Sexuality as understood by Sigmund Freud is "psycho-sexuality," and should be taken "in the same comprehensive sense as that in which the German language uses the word '
lieben
' (to love)." (1910k, pp. 222-23)
In his clinical work during the closing years of the nineteenth century, Freud noticed how significant a role sexuality played in the mental conflicts of his patients, eventually concluding that it was invariably one of the poles of any symptom-generating conflict. In
The Interpretation of Dreams
(1900a), he evoked the importance of childhood sexuality solely in connection with neurotics, but beginning with the first edition of the
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
...
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