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According to psychoanalysis, the second social and sexual stage of an infant's development (after the oral stage), in which the infant learns to control bowel movements. Freudian psychology maintains that children gain pleasure from both passing and withholding their feces. Psychoanalysts believe that development of an anal personality is associated with frustration over toilet training. (See also genital stage and pleasure principle.)

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How to use anal stage in a sentence

But at this stage, he is either afraid or unable to get carried away by his thoughts.
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Whether he can do it on the national stage is the unanswered question.
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Instead, black models are required to remain meekly, silently off stage, waiting for a turn that may never come.
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He wants to know every external detail, even if the escape is ultimately to be shot on a sound stage.
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He said many of them had trouble making the transition from stage realism to the more naturalistic demands of the screen.
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But between the phase of schooling and the phase of adult learning there is an intermediate stage.
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In practice we find a good deal of technical study comes into the college stage.
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In Scotland and America that is distinguished and thought of clearly as the college stage.
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It was in the college stage that most of us made out our religion and made it real for ourselves.
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My schooling was shocking but, as a blessed compensation, my college stage was rather exceptionally good.
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