Anal stage
anal stage
According to psychoanalysis, the second social and sexual stage of an infant’s development (after the oral stage), in which the infant learns to control bowel movements. Freudian psychology maintains that children gain pleasure from both passing and withholding their feces. Psychoanalysts believe that development of an anal personality is associated with frustration over toilet training. (See also genital stage and pleasure principle.)
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- Anal verge
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- Anal-expulsive
anal-expulsive anal-expulsive adj. Indicating personality traits, such as conceit, suspicion, ambition, and generosity, originating in habits, attitudes, or values associated with infantile pleasure in the expulsion of feces.
- Analbuminemia
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- Analects
selected passages from the writings of an author or of different authors. Historical Examples But by this method one misses much of the characterisation which is such an attractive feature of the analects. The Sayings of Confucius Confucius The analects of Confucius contain the gist of his teachings, and is worthy of study. The Wisdom […]