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drives, deriving pleasure from any part of the body. The objects and modes of pleasurable satisfaction are multifarious, directed at every object that might provide pleasure. Polymorphous perverse sexuality continues from infancy through about age five, progressing through three distinct
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urges are normal. Lacking knowledge that certain modes of gratification are forbidden, the polymorphously perverse child seeks gratification wherever it occurs. In the earliest phase, the
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For Freud, "perversion" is a non-judgmental term. He used it to designate behavior outside the socially acceptable norms of his era.
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behavior focused on the genitals and reproduction or sublimations of the procreative drive.
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Freud thought that during this stage of undifferentiated impulse for pleasure,
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The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud
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Freud theorized that some are born with unfocused pleasure/
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