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anal stage: (psychoanalysis) the second sexual and social stage of a child's development during which bowel control is learned
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| anal phase |
the second phase of child development as defined by Sigmund Freud. In each of these phases, the individual's pursuit of pleasure (driven by the id) is focused on a different erogenous zone. In the anal phase, the focus is on elimination, or more generally on the gratification derived from controlling oneself and one's environment. (Compare oral phase and genital phase.)
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