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Freud’s Anal Stage is part of the Psychosexual Development theory, which was developed by psychologist Sigmund Freud.

“The anal stage is the second stage in Sigmund Freud’s theory of psychosexual development, lasting from age 18 months to three years. According to Freud, the anus is the primary erogenous zone and pleasure is derived from controlling bladder and bowl movement. The major conflict issue during this stage is toilet training. A fixation at this stage can result in a personality that is too rigid or one that is too disordered” . According to Freud’s theory, personality developed through a series of stages throughout childhood. These stages are focused on erogenous areas. Freud believed in the libido, which he referred to as psychosexual energy. To Freud the libido was the driving force behind all of our behaviors .

Personality Based on Outcome
In order to obtain a healthy personality later on in adulthood all of these stages need to be completed successfully. If issues are not resolved in a stage then fixation will occur resulting in an unhealthy personality

About the Anal Stage
The anal stage, in Freudian psychology, is the period of human development occurring at about one to three years of age. Around this age, the child begins to toilet train, which brings about the child's fascination in the erogenous zone of the anus. The erogenous zone is focused on the bowel and bladder control. Therefore, Freud believed that the libido was mainly focused on controlling the bladder and bowel movements. The anal stage coincides with the start of the child’s ability to control their anal sphincter, and therefore their ability to give or withhold gifts at will. If the children during this stage can overcome the conflict it will result in a sense of accomplishment and independence.

The Conflict in The Anal Stage
This is the second stage of Freud's psychosexual stages. This stage represents a conflict with the id, ego, and superego. The child is approached with this conflict with the parent's demands. A successful completion of this stage depends on how the parents interact with the child while toilet training. If a parent praises the child and gives rewards for using the toilet properly and at the right times then the child will successfully go through the stage. However, if a parent ridicules and punishes a child while he or she is at this stage, the child can respond in negative ways.

The Parents’ Role
As mentioned before the ability for the children to be successful in this stage is solely dependent upon their parents and the approach they use towards toilet training. Freud believed that parents should promote the use of toilet training with praise and rewards. With the use of positive reinforcement after using the toilet at the appropriate times encourages positive outcomes. This will help reinforce the feeling that the child is capable of controlling their bladder. The parents help make the outcome of this stage a positive experience which in turn will lead to a competent, productive, and creative adult. This stage is also important in the child’s future relationships with authority.

According to Freud’s Psychosexual Theory, parents need to be very careful in how they react to their children during this sensitive stage (Funder, 2010). During this stage children test their parents, the authority figures, on how much power they really have as opposed to how much room the child has to make his or her own decisions.

The negative reactions from their parents, such as early or harsh toilet training, can lead the child to become anal-retentive personality. If the parents tried forcing the children to learn to control their bowel movements the child may react by deliberately holding back in rebellion. They will form into an adult who hates mess, is obsessively tidy, punctual, and respectful to authority. These adults can sometimes be stubborn and be very careful over their money.

Anal Expulsive Adult
The opposite of this adult would be the anal expulsive adult. This adult had a liberal toilet training as opposed to the above reaction. These adults as children usually went to the bathroom at inappropriate times. As a child they soiled their pants wherever they pleased in rebellion of using the toilet. They did not like to be told where and when they should use the toilet. This adult will want to share things with their peers and give things away. These adults can sometimes be messy, disorganized, and rebellious. They, however, will also be inconsiderate of others feelings.

However, a child who has successfully completed this stage will be characterized as having used proper toilet training techniques throughout toilet training years and will successfully move on to the next stage of Freud's psychosexual developmental stages. Although the stage seems to be about proper toilet training, it is also about controlling behaviors and urges. A child needs to learn certain boundaries when he or she is young so that in the future there will not be contention regarding what is over-stepping the boundaries.

Anal Stage Related to Cognitive Psychology
According to the field of Cognitive Psychology which acknowledges the existence of internal mental states, Freud’s Anal Stage falls right into this category. These internal mental states are referring to belief, idea, motivation, and knowledge. Freud revolves the basis of his stages around these main ideas also. The result of whether a child completes this stage successfully or becomes fixated has a lot to do with the child’s knowledge of his or her past with their toilet training experience, the motivation he or she received from the parents during the stage, and the child’s own belief in how they should react to the situation. Cognitive psychology also focuses and studies on how people perceive, remember, and learn their surroundings, environment, and experiences. These are the three main reasons as to why a child will later on become either anal-retentive or anal-expulsive as an adult.

According to a study done by Adelson and Redmond consisting of 61 female students at Bennington College where they compared the ability for anal-retentive and anal-expulsive memory. In order to diagnose the anal fixation the Blacky Test was administered to the subjects. The recall tests were given to five freshman literature classes in which the researcher explained to the students to read the papers carefully because they will be asked questions on them. The class had ten minutes in order to read the papers. In order to test immediate recall, the subjects were asked to write down everything they could remember right after reading the papers. A week later the researchers returned to the classrooms and asked the same students to write down everything they still remembered.

“At a first glance, psychoanalytic theory seerns to offer no explicit statement on the problem, but a closer examination yields this hypothesis: individuals fixated at the late anal phase (the so called anal retentives) have a greater ability to recall verbal material than those fixated at the early anal phase (anal-expulsives)”.

Anal-retentive individuals were found to have a better memory for verbal recall compared to those who were anal-expulsive. Anal retentives significantly show a better recall for both the immediate and delayed verbal material. Their results are consistent over time.

The ability for a child to successfully complete the Anal Stage affects their life as an adult not only in the way they interact with others, but how they function intellectually and on a daily basis.