stade génital

CONT: Psychoanalytic theory, as first offered by Freud, assumes that the child passes through a series of stages ... During the final and so-called genital stage of development, gratification is said to be sought in a love relationship with another.
CONT: Freudians claim that in normal development the child undergoes the invariant transition from a so-called oral stage to an anal stage to a genital stage, and they attribute various aspects of psychological dysfunctions in the adult to an earlier failure to move successfully from one stage to the next.