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pregenital

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pregenital /pre·gen·i·tal/ (pre-jen´ĭ-t'l) antedating the emergence of genital interests.
pregenital [pre-jen´ĭ-t'l]
pertaining to the early stages of psychosexual development (oral and anal), before the genitals have become the dominant influence on sexual behavior.


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Muhl, according to the author, seems never to have gotten over his "prepubescent, pregenital, in some ways even prenatal stage.
This leads to either a regression of sexuality to pregenital impulses and obsessive struggles over it, or indulgence in sadomasochistic perversions.
Although the original sexual experience with the father was at a genital level, the meaning of the sexual act was pregenital and seemed to have the purpose of receiving some sort of parental interest.
 
 
 
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