anacliticadj.
Psychol.
Orig. in phr. anaclitic type (tr. German Anlehnungstypus (Freud), lit. ‘leaning-on type’), a person whose choice of a ‘love object’ is governed by the dependence of the libido on another instinct, e.g. hunger; also in extended use, characterized by dependence on another or others (see quots.).
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1922 J. Riviere tr. Freud Introd. Lect. Psycho-anal. iii. xxvi. 356 The anaclitic type (Anlehnungstypus) in which those persons who become prized on account of the satisfactions they rendered to the primal needs of life are chosen as objects by the Libido also.
1922 J. Strachey tr. Freud Group Psychol. vii. 60 The boy has begun to develop a true object-cathexis towards his mother according to the anaclitic type.
1930 W. Healy et al. Struct. & Meaning Psychoanal. ii. 106 These attachments are likely in the beginning to be strongly anaclitic in nature; the child will turn first to those who assist it in its helplessness and gratify its self-preservative needs.
1934 H. C. Warren Dict. Psychol. 12/1 Anaclitic object-choice, taking one's earliest attachments (to mother or nurse) as a model for the selection of the first love object. Contr. w. narcissistic object-choice.
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