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Definition of Infantile fixation
1. Noun. An abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Infantile Fixation
Literary usage of Infantile fixation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Collected papers on analytical psychology by Carl Gustav Jung, Constance Ellen Long (1917)
"The therapy and its main preoccupation are in full accord with this view, and
are chiefly concerned with the unravelling of this infantile fixation, ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1920)
"The " i This infantile fixation upon him, strengthened and stiffened by the narrow
circumstances of her life and by each succeeding shock, grounded in a ..."
3. Diseases of the nervous system by Smith Ely Jelliffe, William Alanson White (1917)
"... and when difficulties arose in her life and she was thrown back upon herself,
she went back to that point at which there had been an infantile fixation. ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"There are three factors entering into a neurosis: heredity, and "infantile
fixation" during evolution, and the present or current conflict. ..."
5. Papers on Psycho-analysis by Ernest Jones (1918)
"... that he has been subjected to what is called an ' infantile fixation ' at a
given point in development—and thirdly the current difficulty. ..."
6. The Psychoanalytic Method by Oskar Pfister (1917)
"... be strong enough where the persistence of the instinct in the infantile fixation
does not show through without analysis and therefore is not exposed. ..."
7. Three Contributions to the Sexual Theory by Sigmund Freud (1910)
"... for the parents and the sexual love are nourished from the same source, ie,
that the first merely corresponds to an infantile fixation of the libido. ..."
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