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anal retentive
(redirected from Anal fixation)

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anal retentive Psychoanal
n
(Psychoanalysis) a person who exhibits anal personality traits
adj anal-retentive
(Psychoanalysis) exhibiting anal personality traits
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Adj.1.anal retentive - a stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is concentrated on the anal regionanal retentive - a stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is concentrated on the anal region; fixation at this stage is said to result in orderliness, meanness, stubbornness, compulsiveness, etc.
anal
depth psychology, psychoanalysis, analysis - a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud; "his physician recommended psychoanalysis"
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In one set of photographs, birds come to embody a certain brute stupidity (not entirely alien to our own condition); this series of avian riffs evokes, rather incongruously, anal fixation.
Vedova Mazzei by Verzotti, Giorgio / Artforum International
All the vague allusions to oral and anal fixations, the specious bandying about of terms like "repression," "compulsion," and "fetish," the detection of penises, vaginas, and breasts in every artwork--it's painful to read, not because of the uncomfortable psychic truths it turns up, but because it's so full of bad causal reasoning and outmoded shrink jargon.
Rona Pondick by Seward, Keith / Artforum International
 
 
 
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