Mesoamerican calendars was of ritual significance to a number of Mesoamerican cultures. A third major calendar form known as the Long Count is found in the inscriptions of several Mesoamerican cultures, most famously those of the Maya civilization who developed it to its fullest extent during the Classic period (ca. 200–900 CE). The Long Count provided the ability to uniquely identify days over a much longer period of time, by combining a sequence of day-counts or cycles of increasing length, calculated or set from a particular date in the mythical past. Most commonly, five such higher-order cycles in a modified vigesimal (base-20)
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