Although Your Textbook Focuses on Intimate Relationships,the Authors Argue That

question 5

Essay

Although your textbook focuses on intimate relationships,the authors argue that we cannot understand intimate relationships without also discussing close relationships more broadly.Explain why only some close relationships may be considered intimate relationships.

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Definitions:

Fixated

Having an obsessive focus or attachment to someone or something.

Psychosexual Stage

A concept in Freudian psychoanalytic theory referring to the series of five stages in childhood development, each characterized by the pleasure focus on a different part of the body.

Freud

Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist known for founding psychoanalysis, a method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.

Anally Fixated

a term from Freudian psychology referring to a stage of psychosexual development where there's a strong focus on activities related to the anus, such as retention or expulsion of feces, which can influence personality traits.