anal personality
in classical psychoanalytic theory, a pattern of personality traits believed to stem from the anal stage of psychosexual development, when defecation is a primary source of pleasure. Special satisfaction from retention of the feces will result in an adult anal-retentive personality, marked by frugality, obstinacy, and orderliness, whereas fixation on expelling feces will produce an aggressive and disorderly anal-expulsive personality. Also called anal character. See also anal-aggressive personality; hoarding orientation.