pansexualismn.
/panˈsɛkʃʊəlɪz(ə)m/, /panˈsɛkʃᵿlɪz(ə)m/, /panˈsɛkʃl̩ɪz(ə)m/, /panˈsɛksjʊ(ə)lɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /pænˈsɛkʃ(əw)əˌlɪz(ə)m/ 1. Psychology. The view that the sex instinct plays a part in all human behaviour and is the chief or only source of motivation.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > [noun] > study of sex > specific theory
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1914 J. V. Haberman in Jrnl. Abnormal Psych. 9 265 The ‘parts’ of the [Freudian] theory may be enumerated as follows:...The pan-sexualism of mental life which makes every trend revert finally to the sexual.
1922 J. Strachey tr. S. Freud Group Psychol. iv. 39 Psycho-analysis, then gives these love instincts the name of sexual instincts... The majority of ‘educated’ people have regarded this nomenclature as an insult, and have taken their revenge by retorting upon psycho-analysis with the reproach of ‘pan-sexualism’ [Ger. Pansexualismus].
1924 Mind 33 117 Pansexualism is a creation of Psychoanalysis.
1953 Jrnl. Aesthetics & Art Crit. 11 319 The pansexualism of Freud certainly places sex at its basis, but derives from it all other forms of love: that of family, country, God, arts, and even the sciences.
1990 Gender & Society 4 455 I agree with Sartre's critique of Freud's pan-sexualism.
2. = pansexuality n. 2.
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1988 Guardian Weekly (Nexis) 6 Mar. 28 Havelock-Ellis's aesthetic delight in ‘golden showers’; Henry Miller's pansexualism; James Joyce's fondness for doll's knickers.
2002 Hypatia (Nexis) 17 174 We might be especially suspicious..given Rousseau's own apparent pansexualism; Rousseau's texts are littered with menages-a-trois, homosexual encounters, orgasmic responses to nature and to beatings.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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