object-selection

Updated: March 18, 2025

This shows that the apparently non-sexual love for the parents and the sexual love are nourished from the same source, i.e., that the first merely corresponds to an infantile fixation of the libido. The nearer we come to the deeper disturbances of the psychosexual development the more easily we can recognize the evident significance of the incestuous object-selection.

Sigmund Freud - Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex