Definition of "pregenital" []

• Describing psychosexual development prior to the genital phase (adjective)
• In front of the genital region (adjective)

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• "It then dominates a phase of the sexual life, which we shall later describe as the pregenital organization."
• "In the pregenital stage of libido development there are two important phases that enter into the stammering neurosis, namely, the earlier oral stage and the later anal-sadistic stage."
• "Reich 1974 placed the impulsive character, the neurotic character, and the psychopath between neurosis and psychosis and observed the ambivalence, hostile pregenital impulses, ego and superego deficits, immature defenses, and primitive narcissistic features of the impulsive personality."