To: | JMerz140@aol.com |
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Subject: | Re: Points of interest - Mallory |
From: | "J. Neil Doane" <root@yeah.indstate.edu> |
Date: | Wed, 12 Nov 1997 17:22:45 -0600 (CST) |
A bit off topic maybe, but since you asked, yeah, 'anal retentive' is correct. It refers to a fixation of energy in the second stage of Freud's "psychosexual" theory of development, the anal stage (from 1-3 years of age,) and is characterized by excessive orderliness or stinginess. (It's mirror twin is 'anal expulsive' behaviour.) On Wed, 12 Nov 1997 JMerz140@aol.com wrote: > Isn't the term anal retentive vs anal attentive? > |
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