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anal, a.|ˈeɪnəl| [ad. mod.L. ānāl-is, f. anus.] 1. a. Of or pertaining to the anus, or excretory opening.
1836Todd Cycl. Anat. & Phys. I. 209/1 In the vicinity of the anal aperture. 1877Huxley Anat. Inv. An. ii. 103 An anal region, which gives exit to the refuse of digestion. 1878Bryant Pract. Surg. I. 25 Anal fistula. b. anal eroticism (or anal erotism) [cf. G. analerotik (Freud 1908, in Psychiatrisch-Neurologische Wochenschr. IX. 465)], erotic gratification from stimulation in the anal region; so anal-erotic adj., of, or pertaining to, anal eroticism; anal-erotic n., a person who seeks anal-erotic gratification.
1913E. Jones in Papers on Psycho-Analysis (1918) xxxi. 540 (title) Hate and Anal Erotism in the Obsessional Neurosis. 1917C. R. Payne tr. Pfister's Psychoanalytic Method i. x. 201 The young man..was analerotic to a high degree. Ibid., His father..is still deeper in analeroticism than he. 1924Freud's Coll. Papers ii. iv. 47 Anal erotism is..useless for sexual aims. Ibid. xvi. 169 A wish for a child, in which..an anal-erotic and a genital impulse..coincide. 1931Amer. Jrnl. Orthopsychiatry Oct. 515 Eventually poor Pons fell victim to gall-bladder disease, an occurrence of some significance in an anal erotic. 2. Situated near, or in the region of, the anus.
1769Pennant Brit. Zool. III. 133 The anal fin was white. 1835Kirby Habits & Inst. Anim. I. xii. 336 Leeches..first fix themselves by their anal sucker. 1874Lubbock Orig. & Metam. Insects v. 91 A many-jointed abdomen, often with anal appendages.
Add:3. Psychoanal. Of, pertaining to, or designating 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; displaying character traits such as obsessive orderliness, parsimony, or obstinacy that are thought to result from fixation at this stage.
1930W. Healy et al. Structure & Meaning of Psychoanal. vi. 318 The ‘anal character’ was the first to be discovered and investigated... Freud's cardinal triad of anal characteristics comprises (a) orderliness..(b) parsimony..(c) obstinacy. 1944‘Palinurus’ Unquiet Grave iii. 91 There is a Superego in our civilization which makes us all feel guilty, and a repressive and anal element in the bureaucratic tidiness, caution and frugality of the society which we have made. 1975M. Bradbury Hist. Man viii. 132, I think you've made a heavy, anal job of this, because you're a heavy, anal type. 1983P. H. Miller Theories Developmental Psychol. ii. 137 The child who survives the anal period relatively unscathed is ready to tackle the third stage, the phallic stage, when it arrives. 1990Premiere May 22/3 As long as we're being anal about it, the guest that Monday was not Sammy Davis, Jr., but Flip Wilson. 4. Special collocations in Psychoanal. (see also sense 1 b): anal retentive n. and a., (a person) displaying excessive orderliness and parsimony, interpreted by psychoanalysts as the result of fixation at the anal stage of development.
1958Jrnl. Abnormal & Social Psychol. LVII. 244/1 Individuals fixated at the late anal phase (the so-called *anal retentives) have a greater ability to recall verbal material than those fixated at the early anal phase (anal expulsives). 1960Jrnl. Clin. Psychol. XVI. 219 They found that anal retentive females (as measured by the Blacky test) performed significantly better. 1977C. McFadden Serial (1978) xii. 30/1 Her own father..was practically a casebook example of an anal retentive. 1984S. Townsend Growing Pains A. Mole 27 My mother said, ‘You're an anal retentive, aren't you?’ and my father said, ‘You're tight-fisted, and you've always got your perfectly groomed head in a book.’ anal sadism, the aggressive and destructive tendencies associated with the anal stage of development.
1945O. Fenichel Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis (1946) v. 66 The origin and character of the connection between anal and sadistic drives, hinted at in the term for the organization level (*anal sadism), is analogous to the discussed connection between orality and sadism. 1968Brit. Jrnl. Med. Psychol. XLI. 311/1 Factor 5 also embraces..fascination for height,..phallic significance, and anal sadism. 1981Psychoanal. Rev. LXVIII. 382 The significant impact of affects, particularly of those derived from oral and anal sadism, has been considered in relation to self and object representations. anal sadistic a., displaying anal sadism.
1920Internat. Jrnl. Psychoanal. I. 278 In Obsessional Neurosis there is a regression to the stage of *Anal-Sadistic organization. 1958M. Argyle Relig. Behaviour xii. 167 From the theory that obsessionals regress to the anal-sadistic stage it would be expected that ritualists would engage in crimes of violence. 1973T. Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow (1975) i. 85 The sexual Other, whom he symbolizes on his map, most significantly, as a star, that anal-sadistic emblem of classroom success. 1983Rev. Eng. Stud. May 210 It is a case of an anal-sadistic impulse ‘piously denied or undone’. |