Maya calendar the land of Yucatán into 13 'kingdoms'. 1897 text by Cyrus Thomas Maya calendar The Maya calendar is a system of calendars used in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and in many modern communities in the Guatemalan highlands, Veracruz, Oaxaca and Chiapas, Mexico. The essentials of the Maya calendar are based upon a system which had been in common use throughout the region, dating back to at least the 5th century BCE. It shares many aspects with calendars employed by other earlier Mesoamerican civilizations, such as the Zapotec and Olmec and contemporary or later ones such as the Mixtec and Aztec calendars. By
Fixation (psychology) a normal childhood stage; while other post-Freudians explored the role of fixation in aggression and criminality. Fixation (psychology) "Fixation" () is a concept (in human psychology) that was originated by Sigmund Freud (1905) to denote the persistence of anachronistic sexual traits. The term subsequently came to denote object relationships with attachments to people or things in general persisting from childhood into adult life. In "Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality" (1905), Freud distinguished the fixations of the libido on an incestuous object from a fixation upon a specific, partial "aim", such as voyeurism. Freud theorized that some humans may