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Character and Anal Erotism
Charakter und Analerotik
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.
What it shows
- 1908
Sigmund Freud introduced Anal erotism
Freud counted the anal zone among the erotogenic zones in the Three Essays (1905) and named anal erotism in ‘Character and Anal Erotism’ (1908), where he derived orderliness, parsimony and obstinacy from its transformation.