mother fixation

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mother fixation

Etymology: AS, modor, mother; L, figere, to fasten

an arrest in psychosexual development characterized by an abnormally persistent, close, and often paralyzing emotional attachment to one's mother. Compare father fixation. See also freudian fixation.

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