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psychosexual

/sahy-koh-sek-shoo-uhl or, especially British, -seks-yoo-/US // ˌsaɪ koʊˈsɛk ʃu əl or, especially British, -ˈsɛks yu- //UK // (ˌsaɪkəʊˈsɛksjʊəl) //

精神性,精神性的,精神性爱,精神性行为

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to the relationship of psychological and sexual phenomena.

Examples

  • Alfred Hitchcock is not so much evoked as dragged into the room and pointed at vigorously, as if this film can convince you it’s a taut psychosexual thriller just by referencing some really good ones.

  • He has a psychosexual hold over her that is intentionally fraught with peril for the audience.

  • There is more than a little Buffy/Faith resonance to the twisted, almost psychosexual relationship between Emily and Amanda.

  • Who better to capture the psychosexual nature of Twilight than the current Marquis De Denmark?

  • Sanford Bell has published cases in which as early as the age of two years psychosexual phenomena have been observed.

  • The commonest early manifestations of the sexual life in childhood are, as was said before, the psychosexual phenomena.

  • Similarly the psychosexual passes through a metamorphosis in normal development.

  • He holds that such cases show a "fixation" in an earlier stage of psychosexual development.

  • At this time of life, the psychosexual in especial often plays a great part.