ANAL PHASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does anal phase mean? 

• ANAL PHASE (noun)
  The noun ANAL PHASE has 1 sense:

1. (psychoanalysis) the second sexual and social stage of a child's development during which bowel control is learned

  Familiarity information: ANAL PHASE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANAL PHASE (noun)

Meaning:

(psychoanalysis) the second sexual and social stage of a child's development during which bowel control is learned

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

anal phase; anal stage

Hypernyms ("anal phase" is a kind of...):

phase; stage (any distinct time period in a sequence of events)

Domain category:

analysis; depth psychology; psychoanalysis (a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud)

Holonyms ("anal phase" is a part of...):

childhood (the time of person's life when they are a child)