fixation

(psychic inertia)

In psychoanalytic theory, failure to mature psychologically beyond a specified stage of psychosexual development.

This term appears in...

• psychoanalysis

includes:

- Choose - cannibalistic fixation father fixation mother fixation

See also:

- Choose - fixation (speech) fixation point psychoanalysis

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