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The German substantive Anlehnung is derived from the verb Sich anlehnung, meaning to "lean on" or "prop oneself on" (Laplanche, 1970/1976, p. 15-16). The term appears regularly in Freud's work, especially prior to 1920. What it describes is the support that [[sexuality]] derives, at the beginning, from various functions and [[bodily]] zones related to self-preservation: the mouth, the anus, the musculature, and so on. It is thus intimately bound up with the [[Freudian]] conception of [[infantile]] and [[adult]] sexuality as a much-broadened sphere, far more comprehensive than the [[genital]] alone, and indeed extending to the entire [[body]].
The notion made its [[appearance]] in the first edition of [[Three]] Essays on the [[Theory]] of Sexuality (1905d), and was further explicated in later revisions of that work. It occurs for the very first [[time]] as a designation for the way in which [[anal]] sexuality is bound to the excretory function. The most [[explicit]] account, however, concerns sucking at the breast: "The satisfaction of the [[Erotogenic Zone|erotogenic zone ]] is associated, in the first [[instance]], with the satisfaction of the need for nourishment. To begin with, sexual activity attaches itself to functions serving the [[purpose]] of self-preservation and does not become independent of them until later....The need for repeating the sexual satisfaction now becomes detached from the need for taking nourishment" (1905d, pp. 181-82). "At a time at which the first beginnings of sexual satisfaction are still linked with the taking of nourishment, the sexual [[instinct]] has a [[sexual object]] [[outside]] the [[infant]]'s own body in the shape of his [[mother]]'s breast. It is only later that the instinct loses that object. ...As a rule the [[sexual instinct]] then becomes auto-erotic" (p. 222).
According to Freud's description of the component [[instincts]], the bodily source, the aim, and the object of an instinct need to be in a [[particular]] term-to-term relationship, on the one hand with respect to self-preservation, and on the other with respect to sexuality. Freud's account is most explicit apropos of the object: self-preservation may show sexuality the way to the "choice of an object," in which [[case]] that choice is made on the [[model]] of one of the [[people]] important for the child's survival—"the [[woman]] who feeds" or "the man who protects." This "anaclitic (attachment) type of object-choice" is contrasted, in "On [[Narcissism]]: An Introduction," with "[[narcissistic object-choice]]," where the object is chosen on the model of the self (1914c, pp. 87-90).
==See Also==
Erotogenic zone; [[Language]] of Psychoanalysis, The; Narcissism; Object; "[[On Narcissism]]: An Introduction"; Oral [[stage]]; Primary need; [[Primary Object|Primary object]]; [[Psycho]]-sexual [[development]]; Reciprocal paths of influence ([[libidinal]] coexcitation); Sucking/thumbsucking.
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==References==
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* [[Freud, Sigmund]]. (1905d). [[Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality|Three essays on the theory of sexuality]]. SE, 7: 123-243.
* ——. (1914c). On narcissism: An introduction. SE, 14: 67-102.
