What is "amphimixis"

n. 1 (context uncountable English) sexual reproduction 2 (context countable English) The union of a male and female gamete

1. n. reproduction involving the union or fusion of a male and a female gamete [syn: sexual reproduction]

2. union of sperm and egg in sexual reproduction

3. [also: amphimixes (pl)]

Amphimixis is the psychoanalytic term for the merging of pleasure-centres into an amorphous unity.