Pansexualism

Quick meaning: Pansexualism is a noun meaning (psychology, historical) The psychological theory that all human activity (mental and physical) is based on sexuality.

Meaning

(psychology, historical) The psychological theory that all human activity (mental and physical) is based on sexuality.

More Meanings

1. (rare, chiefly derogatory) Pansexuality.

Example Sentences

[W]e are positing that theoretical pansexualism is but the reflection of a real pansexualism, that is, of a movement by which sexuality reinvests the entirety of human activities. Sexuality is not everything, but it is everywhere.

9.10 Polysexuality and Pansexualism. The prefixes pan and poly originate from ancient Greek meaning all and many, respectively. A person identified as pansexual is gender blind. That is, such people can engage in sexual acts with people having any gender [...]. Polysexuality is thus a subset of pansexuality.

And so we are back at pansexualism. It cannot, however, be too often insisted that, though Freud heavily emphasized the element of sexuality in human nature, he utterly rejected pansexualism, which he regarded as a travesty of his theory; and on many occasions he explicitly and energetically denied the equation of all instinctual life with sexuality.

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