a stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is concentrated on the anal region; fixation at this stage is said to result in orderliness, meanness, stubbornness, compulsiveness, etc
{s} of or pertaining to the anus; located near the anus; (Psychoanalysis) symbolizing a phase of childish psychosexual development in which bowel movement is the main source of sensuous pleasure; self-controlled in an obsessive manner; concentrated on the anal area (in psychosexual development)