anal phase meaning

Noun: anal phase

(psychoanalysis) the second sexual and social stage of a child's development during which bowel control is learned
- anal stage

Derived forms: anal phases

Type of: phase, stage

Part of: childhood

Examples

Had not Freud warned about the dangers of tampering with children's " anal phase " of development?
An influential psychiatrist and Krajina Serb nationalist activist, Jovan Raakovi, argued that " Muslims [ are ] fixated in the anal phase of their psychosocial development and [ are ] therefore characterized by general aggressiveness and an obsession with precision and cleanliness . " It was seen by many Serbs as a prime example of how Albanians were ( in their view ) mistreating Serbs while the Albanian-run Kosovo government was " looking the other way ".