| 单词 | anal retentive |
| 释义 | > as lemmasanal retentive anal retentive adj. and n. (a) adj. of, relating to, or designating the latter part of the anal stage of infantile psychosexual development, associated with retention of faeces; (of a person) displaying excessive orderliness, parsimony, or obstinacy, interpreted by psychoanalysts as the result of fixation at the anal stage, esp. its latter part (frequently in weakened use); (b) n. a person who displays these characteristics. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > morbidly preoccupied > obsessive or compulsive compulsive1902 anal1918 obsessive–compulsive1927 anal retentive1936 retentive1957 anally retentive1968 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > compulsion neurosis > obsession or compulsion > person obsessional neurotic1932 anal retentive1936 obsessive–compulsive1960 1936 M. Brierley in Internat. Jrnl. Psycho-anal. 17 168 It is the women in whom this urethral quick emission..is not adequately neutralized by anal retentive trends who fail to conceive and tend to miscarry after conception. 1958 Jrnl. Abnormal & Social Psychol. 57 244/1 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). 1960 Jrnl. Clin. Psychol. 16 219 They found that anal retentive females (as measured by the Blacky test) performed significantly better. 1973 D. Meltzer Sexual States of Mind (1990) iv. 30 Here..was rich confirmation of Freud's and Abraham's theories about the infantile roots of obsessional neurosis, the anal-retentive stage, [etc.]. 1992 P. David Imzadi ii. 17 He was anal retentive enough to want to have the printed confirmation in front of him, just in case. 2002 New Internationalist May 2/1 I seldom act on impulse myself and am actually a bit of an anal retentive. < as lemmas |
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