Anal Character

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This term is an extension of Freud's anal stage of development (you remember Freud's stages of development, right?) in which a person develops a specific type of a personality that stems from unresolved conflicts during the anal stage of psychosexual development. A person with an anal character typically shows traits such as excessive neatness and orderliness, stinginess, and an inability to be flexible.

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Question: From a Psychological perspective, what is wrong with this statement: "When I bite into a York peppermint patty, I get the sensation of swimming in a cool mountain stream on a hot summer day"?

peppermint patties aren't all that good eating can't produce other types of sensations sensation is a passive process and the statement describes an active process peppermint inhibits tactile processes

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