Article
Character and Anal Erotism
Charakter und Analerotik
Copyright Life + 70 years Public domain The last author or translator died in 1939; public domain since 2010.United States Public domain Published in 1908; public domain since 2004.
Freud’s short paper connecting a triad of character traits, orderliness, parsimony and obstinacy, to a strong constitutional anal erotism in childhood that has been given up. The traits are read as reaction formations against, and sublimations of, the pleasure once taken in the anal zone.
- Published
- 1908
- In
- Psychiatrisch-Neurologische Wochenschrift 9 (52): 465–467
- Language
- German