coprophilia

n. literally, the love of feces, which is manifested in behavior as an excessive or pathological preoccupation with the bodily product itself or with objects and words that represent it. In classical psychoanalytic theory, these tendencies are held to represent a fixation during the anal stage of development.

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true schizophrenia

see nuclear schizophrenia.