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Definition of Oral stage
1. Noun. (psychoanalysis) the first sexual and social stage of an infant's development; the mouth is the focus of the libido and satisfaction comes from suckling and chewing and biting.
Category relationships: Analysis, Depth Psychology, Psychoanalysis
Group relationships: Babyhood, Early Childhood, Infancy
Generic synonyms: Phase, Stage
Medical Definition of Oral stage
1. The earliest of the stages of infantile psychosexual development, lasting from birth to 12 months or longer. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oral Stage
Literary usage of Oral stage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1894)
"The common tendency at the present moment is to trace four distinct stages in
this genesis. First, there was the purely oral stage—the stage of oral ..."
2. Princeton Theological Review by Princeton Theological Seminary (1904)
"... should take on a definite form " in the plastic oral stage," and be transmitted
in that form for hundreds of years before being recorded in writing, ..."
3. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1891)
"Behind this written stage we discern an oral stage in which the incidents of the
legend were singularly vague and formless, but in which they still hung ..."
4. The Psychology and Pedagogy of Reading: With a Review of the History of by Edmund Burke Huey (1908)
"Let the child linger then in the oral stage, and let him use the primitive means
of expression and communication as he likes to do; this at least until we ..."
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