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anal sadism en · NOUN

Etymology

From anal + sadism.

Meanings

  1. (qualifier:Freudian, uncountable) 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:
    • 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 1930, Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing Company, Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series - Volume 52, page 160:

Deriveds

anal-sadistic