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anal sadism

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

Noun

anal sadism (uncountable)

  1. (Freudian) A cluster of personality traits in the anal stage of psychosexual development, involving aggressiveness, destructiveness, negativism, and outwardly directed rage.
    • It gratified his genital sadism as an act of sadistic coitus on the parental model; his anal sadism by 'putting his mark on her'1927, Institute of Psycho-analysis (Great Britain), International Psycho-Analytical Association, Sigmund Freud, The International Journal of Psycho-analysis, page 19
    • In the alcoholic, anal erotism is heightened, again owing to partial fixation, whilst anal sadism is correspondingly increased.1928, Royal Society of Medicine (Great Britain), Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine - Volume 21, Part 2, page 1353

Origin of anal sadism

From anal + sadism.

Words formed from anal sadism

Questions about anal sadism

What does anal sadism mean?
Anal sadism means a cluster of personality traits in the anal stage of psychosexual development, involving aggressiveness, destructiveness, negativism, and outwardly directed rage.
What part of speech is anal sadism?
Anal sadism is a noun.

Words near anal sadism in the dictionary

  1. anal pore
  2. anal pores
  3. anal retentive
  4. anal sac
  5. anal sacs
  6. anal sadism
  7. anal sadist
  8. anal sadists
  9. anal sex
  10. anal sphincter
  11. anal sphincters

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