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Psychology Terms - Aim-inhibition
refers to the characteristic of an instinct that does not attain its direct method of fulfillment or instinctual purpose, yet derives partial gratification via indirect approximations of the behavior or activity that would fulfill it. In 1921, Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) presented the concept in his work Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (Standard Edition, XVIII, pp. 69–143, at pp. 138–9) to elucidate the genesis of sociable feelings of affection, positing that if friendships and familial affection were not constrained by aim-inhibition, they would manifest as overtly sexual.
refers to the characteristic of an instinct that does not attain its direct method of fulfillment or instinctual purpose, yet derives partial gratification via indirect approximations of the behavior or activity that would fulfill it. In 1921, Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) presented the concept in his work Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (Standard Edition, XVIII, pp. 69–143, at pp. 138–9) to elucidate the genesis of sociable feelings of affection, positing that if friendships and familial affection were not constrained by aim-inhibition, they would manifest as overtly sexual.
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