Freud believed that a child passes through a series of differentiated or developmental stages during his first five years of life. These stages are defined in terms of modes of reaction related to a particular zone of the body . The Oral is the first stage and lasts for about a year and the mouth is the principal zone of activity. During this next stage the investment of energy(cathexis and anti-cathexis ) are related to its eliminating functions and is called the Anal stage. This stage ,in the second year, is succeeded by the Phallic stage . In this stage, the sex organs become the leading erogenous zone .This essay pertains to theimplications and consequences resulting from the Anal stage .
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Briefly, with the expulsion of feces, after food has been digested, there is pressure from the anal sphincters . This occurrence removes the sources of discomfort and produces a feeling of relief and sensory delight. With toilet training, usually during the second year of life, the child faces his first decisive experience with external regulation( mother) of his instinctual impulse. The young child has to learn to postpone the pleasure that comes from both holding and relieving his anal tensions.In essence, a conflict .
The child appears to value his excretion ( a possession) as an object and the activities of expelling or retaining become his first efforts at direct control of instinctual drives .During, he has to deal with his mother and her attitude, demands,control and idiosyncrasies on her terms. This process ,the mother and child outcome can become significant initially and especially for later feelings,attitudes and behavior toward his autonomy ,character associated with giving to others , letting go and/or retaining,or holding on to his own valuable possessions .
As a result, toilet training begins the crisis of elimination or retention . This unique conflict related to control, pits the child against the external world or the mother. This can become a battle over the beginning of independence, self assertion and mastery for the child. However, it can also become conflictual as in a battle over will. Too much arbitrary, irrational external control over the child results in anxiety, frustration ,anger and hate. This is likely the child’s first experience with love and hate for the same person as well as with excessive fear ,anxiety , anger and a loss of love..This and other child self assertion tendencies against the backdrop of external barriers results in the occurrence of temper tantrums and has been referred to as the terrible twos.
The dynamics ,in this stage, are associated with attitudes and feelings regarding control over the child’s bowel movements . Also, the child, because of his symbiotic relationship with the mother, identifies and incorporates her positive , negative, loving and angry attitudes. Successful autonomy during this stage can result in mastery ,pride , achievement . depending upon positive reinforcement by the mother . However, negative mother reinforcement can result in a fierce battle of control of possession within the mother ,family or caretaker that has long lasting behavioral and character implications.Will security be based on giving , providing for others or by retaining, withholding and obstinacy ?
Character and personality Implications for unsuccessful outcomes, during this Anal stage can lead to the development of compulsive character tendencies as well as being obstinate , teasing, hitting, messing ,withholding ,throwing, stubbornness, willfulness and general naughtiness .For instance, the occurs with temper tantrums ,angry verbal outbursts ,parsimonious and repeated behavioral tendencies.are common. Other outbursts are associated with frustration related to rules and laws which results in regressive mechanisms designed to cope . Furthermore, there is sadomasochistic pleasure accompanied with. severe diminished self-assertion resulting in anxiety, rage, anger, contempt and hatred .
During the Anal stage, the young child is developing language ,locomotion, saying no and is able to do much and yet he is subjected to this control by others. Specifically, the mother is the child's first love object, a major source of repeated gratifications for hunger, love, action,and pleasure and hate .
Autonomy is related to developing a sense of well-being and with this muscular maturation of the sphincter muscles results in either letting go or holding on which can lead to either hostile or benign expectations and attitudes. Holding on can become destructive, cruel, suffocating or restraining, or it can become a pattern of care, to have and to hold. On the other hand, to let go can turn into letting go as a destructive force an explosion or by becoming relaxed, let pass or to let be.Temper tantrums,,good-bad, clean-dirty, healthy-unhealthy and I hate you remarks are common during this period and as a consequence of this underlying dynamic retains its integrity throughout life.The child also develops the sense that there is power in being oppositional even if being short lived.
The outer control by the mother ( one to fear or to love) must be able to protect the child against meaningless and arbitrary experiences. Otherwise, shame and doubt becomes established with negative consequences during toilet training. Loss of trust results as the child turns against itself by over manipulating and he becomes obsessive with his own repetitions . Moreover, he learns to react to the environment in order to gain power by his stubbornness and obstinate control.
In other words, within the dynamics of the anal stage becomes a decisive mixture and ratio of either love ,cooperation and togetherness or hate ,division, control and stubbornness With that being said, 8 anal characterological behavioral propensities are associated with Donald ‘s behavior 1.Oppositionalnes.provocativenes, violation of established norms, principles and laws pertaining to the Constitution, democracy ,interpersonal,economic and legal behavior. He stiffed workers for their services,had a felony conviction and implemented Project 2025 agenda . 2. A blending of love and hate as he appoints and sadistically fires individuals ,cutting funding for cancer and other health research ,appointing likes of Kennedy Jr. and other incompetents to run government agencies and treating so many others as the enemy, 3. Controlling , possessing , holding on to family members, political figures, corporations, business employees,the US economy,Congressional ,senate and the Supreme Court ,major media, journalists , foreign leaders in a tight, cruel, suffocating manner. 4. When externally blocked , results in frustration with irrational complaining, an explosion of vile and negative temper tantrum attacks using the term vermin (disease) ,rapists, murders, on social media , at rallies and other platforms .5. A preoccupation with dirt and germs by excessive whipping,cleaning of his hands 6. He's proud of his special "possessions" by placing his name on them, along with his golden toilet .7. MAGA slogan is a particular sentimentality with the past irregularities as with. Epstein , or some other mischievous abundance? 8. Let's face it, mental and physical illness are both necessary economic components for capitalism to.florish. For example ,these industries make money by keeping us alive.
Reference
Munroe,Ruth L. Schools Of Psychoanalytic Thought.
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