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Also known as being anal retentive, an anal personality is thought of as someone with an extreme need to control their environment. The person with an anal personality will also have an obsessive attention to detail (even non-essential details) to the point that it might annoy others.
The anal personality is generally perceived as anxious and unable to manage the impulse to control situations. Their behavior goes beyond being helpful. For example, a person with an anal personality might research a product endlessly before buying it.
Are you curious about the origins of the term anal personality? It dates back to the time of Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud , who was the first to propose the existence of this personality type as part of psychoanalytic theory .
Freud wrote about the anal-retentive personality in his early works on psycho-sexual development. Freud argued that there were three psycho-sexual stages during early child development:
It was during the anal stage and toilet training that Freud argued the anal-retentive personality would develop.
Freud believed that when a child grew to realize that they could manage and restrict their bowel movements that the stage would be set for them to potentially develop either an anal-retentive personality or anal expulsive personality.
Freud felt that a child would decide whether to comply with their parent or not. If a parent was too strict or tried to toilet train a child too early, this would then lead to the child developing an anal-retentive personality. In addition, a child who was punished for toilet training accidents would also develop this personality.
Certain historians believe that some of Freud's theories were influenced by the state of indoor plumbing in addition to the Victorian social mores at the time that he lived. Since there was no indoor plumbing, no diapers, and no washing machine, restricting one's bowel movements would have been a much larger concern for children who lived when Freud was a young boy.
Freud's depiction of the anal personality included being overly orderly, meticulous, suspicious, and reserved. Further traits that were later described included being stubborn, rigid, stingy with money and/or time, and having an obsession with being neat or clean. Other adjectives used to describe this personality were perfectionistic, detail-oriented, overly self-reliant, and having a passion for organizing, classifying, or collecting objects.
A student of Freud's, Karl Abraham, took the concept a step further and described the opposite of anal-retentive as being anal-expulsive (a person with a tendency to make a mess).
While Freud described the anal personality, the closest mental disorder that is currently described today in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) is obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) .
This psychiatric diagnosis refers to a person with a compulsive and inflexible need for mental and interpersonal control.
Similar to the anal personality, a person with OCPD will also show strong attention to detail, a need for orderliness in their environment, problems with perfectionism, and a tendency to make lists and rules to follow.
This person may also have trouble delegating tasks and will be obstinate and rigid in their interpersonal dealings.
They may have trouble getting rid of old things or spending money.
What are the differences between having an anal personality and having OCPD?
In common usage, a person who is said to have an anal personality would generally be considered to have a personality quirk. On the other hand, a person with OCPD would be considered to have a mental disorder that interferes with their daily life.
In a classic 1966 study , researchers showed that those with an anal personality performed worse on a task that required them to place their hand into water that had an odor suggestive of fecal matter than people without an anal personality. The researchers speculated that this reflected ineffective defenses against "anal impulses."
In general, research has revealed that the anal personality appears as a cluster of traits rather than a defined type that would be defined as a disorder. In general, the term is rarely used in current psychological research and has much more been adopted colloquially to describe a certain personality "style."
What are some signs you might have an anal personality yourself? Here are the signs to look for.
While these are just some examples of what it might be like if you have an anal personality, they show a common theme of needing to control your environment or behave in a way that involves withholding or being very careful about what you do.
What should you do if you think you have an anal personality? That all depends on whether it bothers you or the people around you.
If you have trouble making decisions or feel anxious if you don't control your environment, it might be worthwhile speaking to a mental health professional to determine whether you might be living with something more than just a personality quirk.
Do you feel as though your behavior is excessive or out of your control? Those are other signs that you might need to seek help. If you have trouble delegating tasks or can't handle when things don't work out perfectly, this could interfere with your daily life or your ability to function at work.
All of these are signs that it may be helpful to speak to a professional .
On the other hand, if you are functioning well, aren't bothered by your quirks, and the people around you are accepting of your personality, then it may simply be something that you learn to live with.
It's important to remember that there is a strong distinction between having an anal personality and having a diagnosable mental health disorder. If you are living with someone who is showing signs of needing to control their environment to an extreme, it may be hard to know if this is just a personality quirk or something deeper.
If that person's behavior appears to interfere with their daily life, causes them distress or causes distress to you or other people in their life, or they are unable to control their impulses or feel great anxiety when unable to carry out compulsions, these are all signs of something deeper than an anal personality.
On the other hand, if someone you know appears to happily clean and organize and manage their money in a way that seems odd to you but that they enjoy or brings them joy, it could be that they simply are showing signs of what Freud identified so long ago. The translation of some unmet need or conflict during childhood into an adult manifestation that is less likely to cause trouble and appears more socially acceptable.
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If there is anyone out there who still considers anal sex taboo, please revisit your feelings because it's a normal, natural, and intimate part of many people's relationships. But, because movies tend to be a few steps behind when it comes to sex/nudity (lest they be slapped with a dreaded NC-17), anal isn't often shown in films—even in non-explicit ways. So when it is featured, it's a big deal, one that deserves a round of applause emojis. Here, a few films that embraced anal sex:
Note: Last Tango in Paris has been purposefully excluded from this list due to the lack of consent (opens in new tab) during the film's famed anal sex scene.
In 2018's surreal, neo-noir mystery Under the Silver Lake , Andrew Garfield and Riki Lindhome share a love scene that many on the internet have interpreted as representing anal sex.
Kate Winslet also had a scene of (at very least implied) anal sex in Little Children, in which she and Patrick Wilson play two people who engage in a steamy affair while their respective spouses are away at work.
Wet Hot American Summer is one of the greatest cult comedies of all time (it's on Netflix, FYI, watch it immediately), and features an anal sex scene between Michael Ian Black and Bradley Cooper's characters. "I remember we kept our socks on. The big tube socks," Cooper said (opens in new tab) of the scene. "We put a lot of that sweat stuff, you know, that glistening gel. And then we were up against—yeah, it was nuts... The joke of that scene was to make it the one serious scene in the whole movie."
Silver has what *appears* to be an anal sex scene between Sharon Stone's and William Baldwin's characters, but it's slightly hard to tell by the positioning—they do it standing up against a giant pillar. If they aren't doing anal, whoever choreographed the scene didn't do a great job with um, penis placement.
Madonna and Willem Dafoe starred in a hiiiiiighly sex-packed movie together—about the sadomasochistic relationship between a woman and her lawyer. Body of Evidence features an anal sex scene, which—like other scenes in the film—incorporates handcuffs. Head's up, it's slightly uncomfortable to watch Madonna's character go from pain to pleasure, and the lines of consent seem somewhat blurred towards the beginning of the scene (she's trying to cuff him, and he ends up cuffing her).
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