Pansexualism

Pansexualism is a hypothesis in psychology "that regards all desire and interest as derived from [the] sex instinct"[1] or, in other words, "that the sex instinct plays the primary part in all human activity, mental and physical"

Not to be confused with Pansexuality.

Pansexualism, as a hypothesis, is the norm in the early psychological school of Freudian or classical psychoanalysis. According to Sigmund Freud, a defining characteristic of humans is an overdeveloped sexual instinct, an excess that is said to explain the existence of human culture.[2] The notion of pansexualism identifies the concept of eroticism as the leading human motivation.[3] The thinker Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller used the term to explain the aesthetic and sensual civilization that reconciled sensuality with reason.[4]

References
  1. The Free Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/pansexualism
  2. Malinowska, Anna; Gratzke, Michael (2018). The Materiality of Love: Essays on Affection and Cultural Practice. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415783828.
  3. Bassin, Filin; Rozhnov, Vladimir; Rozhnova, Maria (1972). "Psychoanalysis and the Theory of the Unconscious". Soviet Life. 1 (184): 38–39.
  4. Freud, Sigmund (2011). Beyond the Pleasure Principle. New York: Broadview Press. p. 258. ISBN 978-1-55111-994-6.
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