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pan-ˈsexual, a. [f. pan- 2 + sexual a.] Of or pertaining to pan-sexualism; that is not limited in sexual choice; pan-ˈsexualism, the view that the sex instinct plays a part in all human thought and activity and is the chief or only source of energy. Hence pan-ˈsexualist a., pertaining to the theory of pansexualism; pan-sexuˈality.
1917C. R. Payne tr. Pfister's Psycho-anal. Method 60 Which..has brought the reproach of ‘pansexualism’ against psychoanalysis. 1922J. Strachey tr. Freud's Group Psychol. iv. 39 Psycho-analysis, then gives these love instincts the name of sexual instincts... The majority of ‘educated’ people have regarded this nomenclature as an insult, and have taken their revenge by retorting upon psycho-analysis with the reproach of ‘pan-sexualism’. 1926W. McDougall Outl. Abnormal Psychol. i. 20 It has led Freud.., as Janet has said, to construct ‘an enormous system of medical philosophy’, the theory of Pan⁓sexuality. Ibid. vi. 131 Freud, in accordance with his pansexualist tendency, expressed the opinion [etc.]. Ibid. xviii. 314 The dogma that the Œdipus complex is present in all men is the principal instrument of the pan⁓sexual theory. 1972Jrnl. Social Psychol. LXXXVII. 51 In the beginning the human organism has the potential of pansexuality. 1974Observer 7 Apr. 36/6 Eventually, no doubt, some biographer will tell us how far he [sc. H. de Montherlant] was homosexual, heterosexual or—as seems to be suggested by some discreet passages about bestiality and incest—pansexual. 1977Guardian Weekly 7 Aug. 18/2 An exquisitely Victorian taste for extravagant, pansexual erotic fantasy. |