oral fixation
Chewing, sucking habit
Oral fixation is a psychological concept from Freudian theory describing excessive focus on mouth-related activities—smoking, nail-biting, overeating, or chewing on objects—supposedly resulting from unresolved needs during infancy.
In casual use, it often just means someone who constantly needs something in their mouth: She has an oral fixation with chewing pen caps.
- nail-bitingExtremely tense or anxious
- pen chewingBiting a writing instrument
- FreudFounder of psychoanalysis
- pacifierInfant sucking device
- bitePierce with teeth
self-soothing · coping mechanism · childhood trauma · thumb sucking · defense mechanisms · smoking · chewing gum · comfort eating · overeating · regression · arrested development · nervous habit · gum · nail · comfort · addiction · chew · mouthing
- smokingsmoking, cigarette, cigar, pipe, lighter
- obsessionsobsession, monomania, preoccupation, mania, infatuation
- psychoanalysisFreud, id, ego, unconscious, Sigmund Freud
- nervous habitsnail biting, lip biting, hair pulling, skin picking, knuckle cracking
- psychosexualitylibido, sexuality, sexual orientation, heterosexuality, homosexuality
- addictionaddiction, drug addiction, substance abuse, drug dependence, substance dependency