Fixation (Psychology) (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Fixation: concept originated by Sigmund Freud (1905a) to denote the persistence of anachronistic sexual traits'. Subsequently '"Fixation" acquired a broader connotation. With the development of theory of libidinal stages...the term came to mean a persistent attachment, not only to the specific instinctual aims of a particular era, but, instead, to the entire complex of self and object relation' at that time. More generally, it is the state in which an individual becomes obsessed with an attachment to another person, being or object (in human psychology). In Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality(1905a), Freud distinguished 'fixations of preliminary sexual aims...as in the case of voyeurs from the 'after-effects of infantile object-choice...an incestuous fixation of his or her] libido'.