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object choice

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ob·ject choice (bjkt, -jkt)
n.
In psychoanalytic theory, the object, usually a person, upon which an individual's psychic energy is centered.
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In addition to the necessity to integrate the three types of object choice, we must recall that Freud also stipulated that we all have within us a set of conditions that are necessary for our optimal functioning in sex and love.
THE FREUDIAN CONCEPT OF NARCISSISM by Leonard B. Klein / Psychology and mental health community
The first type is homosexual transsexuals, extremely gender-transposed (feminine) men whose sexual object choice is toward men instead of women.
Biological reductionism meets gender diversity in human sexuality by Bockting, Walter O. / The Journal of Sex Research
Recent scholarship on shifts in the construction of masculinity and sexual identity from the late nineteenth into the early twentieth-century have tended to focus on the influence of sexologists--medical "experts" who brought sexuality into the taxonomic arena of science--and their campaign to differentiate between sexual object choice and gendered behavior.
"IN NEW YORK IT'D MEAN I WAS A ...": MASCULINITY ANXIETY AND PERIOD ... by BLACKMORE, DAVID / The Hemingway Review
 
 
 
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