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anal sadism

anal sadism

in the classical psychoanalytic theory of Sigmund Freud, the expression of aggressive impulses in the anal stage of psychosexual development, involving both the destruction of the object and its possession and control. It is manifested in the adult in the form of an anal-aggressive personality.

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