different between anaclisis vs anaclitism

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????????? (anáklisis), intended as a calque of German Anlehnung.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?æn??kla?s?s/

Noun

anaclisis (plural anaclises)

1. (psychoanalysis) The choice of an object of libidinal attachment on the basis of a resemblance to early childhood protective and parental figures.

Synonyms

• anaclitism

References

• "anaclisis". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
• Laplanche, J. and Pontalis, J.-B. (1973). The Language of Psycho-Analysis. W. W. Norton and Company. ?ISBN, entry: "Anaclisis; Anaclitic (or Attachment)".

English

Etymology

See anaclisis.

Noun

anaclitism (plural anaclitisms)

1. (psychology) The pattern of deriving adult sexual arousal from objects that one was exposed to as an infant. The fetish value often stems from tactile stimulation similar to that experienced by the infant before it could see well.
2. (psychology) In Freudian theory, the relation between bodily functions in early childhood and the later development of the sexual instinct. The infant's bodily function of simple hunger, to take a primary example, is at first attached solely to the act of suckling at mother's breast.

Synonyms

• anaclisis

See also

• fetishism
• infantilism
• babyism
• paraphilic infantilism

References

• Laplanche, J. and Pontalis, J.-B. (1973). The Language of Psycho-Analysis. W. W. Norton and Company. ?ISBN, entry: "Anaclisis; Anaclitic (or Attachment)".

Anagrams

• talismanic