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This study, itself in many ways an abstract of anthropological material previously published by the author, comprises a description of Mohave toilet training and an analysis of anal phantasies and of the cultural and behavioural effects of these phantasies. The phantasy material is divided into groupings suggested by W. C. Menninger's study of the anal stage in such a way as to bring out the inter-relationships of oral and anal phantasies and the repercussions of the anal stage on phallic-genital development. The paper ends with a study of anal character traits with special reference to Menninger's tabulation.
Stress is laid on the leniency of Mohave toilet training, which is not complete until some time after the onset of the climax of the Oedipal period. This prevents the formation of compulsive character traits but leads to the flowering of elaborate, conscious anal phantasies, to extreme generosity, to excesses in anal-expulsive behaviour and to culturally acceptable anal sexual behaviour based on eroticization of the anus and 'analization' of the genitals. A similar overlap of the oral and anal stages, probably due to late weaning,