Meaning of anal sadism | Babel Free

Definitions

A cluster of personality traits in the anal stage of psychosexual development, involving aggressiveness, destructiveness, negativism, and outwardly directed rage.

uncountable

Examples

“It gratified his genital sadism as an act of sadistic coitus on the parental model; his anal sadism by 'putting his mark on her'”

“In the alcoholic, anal erotism is heightened, again owing to partial fixation, whilst anal sadism is correspondingly increased.”

“From this earliest phase the child continues to develop, through the first phase of anal sadism (as described by Abraham) with a gradual increase in erotic admixture to the second phase of anal sadism”

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