Infantile sexuality (n.) is, as Freud understands it, a bundle of possibilities for investing libido, spread over all forms of sexual activity before any normal goal exists; investments set free in development drive sublimation.
Infantile sexuality (n.) can arise from romping among children, innocent in itself — and, as every mother knows, it often ends in squabbling and tears.
Infantile sexuality (n.) has its cloaca theory — the child's belief that the bottom is one single region — why dreams of one room splitting into two echo infantile sexual research.
Infantile sexuality (n.) may be proscribed with some reason, but to disavow it — so plain a phenomenon — cannot be justified.
Infantile sexuality (n.) is invariably incestuous in its earliest excitations, and when repressed these drive the neuroses of later life.
Infantile sexuality (n.) is there from the start, as the difference is in seedlings: an apple tree's and a bean's look alike, yet each is already what it will be.
Infantile sexuality (n.) is the scandalous finding that sexual life does not wait for puberty but shows itself plainly soon after birth.
Infantile sexuality (n.) is, Freud holds, common property of all humanity, only exaggerated or distorted in neurotics, though usually overlooked or denied.
Infantile sexuality (n.) holds the germs of every later perversion; normal adult sexuality is carved out of it by suppressions that are never quite perfect.
Infantile sexuality (n.) took the place of childhood sexual trauma in Freud's theory: not what was done to the child but what the child itself did.