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| | Re: "anal retentiveness" |
 | | Should a person become fixated in the anal stage he may become a noticeably orderly, frugal, and obstinate adult. |
 | | Despite the general decline of interest today in psychoanalysis, "anal personality" is a common locution, and means the same as anal-retentive personality, especially emphasizing rules, order and meticulousness. |
 | | ANAL - "adj (1930) of the second stage of Freud's suggested process of libidinal development (lasting from about the age of eighteen months to three years), dominated by toilet training; hence, displaying character traits thought to result from fixation at this age, such as obsessive orderliness, parsimony; or obstinacy." |
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