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Definition of Anal phase
1. Noun. (psychoanalysis) the second sexual and social stage of a child's development during which bowel control is learned.
Category relationships: Analysis, Depth Psychology, Psychoanalysis
Group relationships: Childhood
Generic synonyms: Phase, Stage
Medical Definition of Anal phase
1. In psychoanalytic personality theory, the stage of psychosexual development, occurring when a child is between 1 and 3 years, during which activities, interests, and concerns are centreed around the anal zone. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anal Phase
Literary usage of Anal phase
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General introduction to psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud (1920)
"... Back of the sadistico-anal phase of libido-development, we get a view of an
earlier, even more primitive phase of organization, in which the erogenous ..."
2. Problems in Dynamic Psychology: A Critique of Psychoanalysis and Suggested by John Thompson MacCurdy (1922)
"The first is one when oral erotism dominates while the second is this sadistico-
anal phase. We shall return to the question of the relationship of libido ..."
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