PEP | Article - Bulletin of the Philadelphia Association for Psychoanalysis. VIII, 1958: Analysis of an Anal Character. Daniel W. Badal. Pp. 1-8.

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Abstract

Badal reviews his analysis of an anal character to discover not only the genesis

and dynamics of the anal traits but also the circumstances leading to their passive expression. Anal dilatation without anesthesia at the age of eighteen months was remembered and apparently constituted severe trauma for the patient. Fear of loss of love during the Oedipal period determined passive expression of anal traits. The technical problem was similar to that occurring with phobics. The patient eventually had to be forced into meeting situations that he customarily avoided, such as work and study.