Anyone remember "anal retentive" as a descriptive term.

[MineralMan]

Perhaps it should be resurrected on the Internet. I remember several overly-religious people for whom the term was precisely on-target. Perhaps you do too.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_retentiveness

[LisaM]

1. Sure!

I think people have just shortened it to "anal", is all. Which I still hear frequently.

[edhopper]

2. Yeah

it was Freudian bullshit (as far as causation) but very descriptive of certain people.

[MineralMan]

3. I thought it referred to Martn Luther's chronic

Constipation.

[Lordquinton]

4. There's an inverse term

To describe someone who is well, the opposite.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_expulsiveness

[MineralMan]

5. Ewww...

[Lordquinton]

6. This is Freud we're talking about

But that reaction was worth it.

[MineralMan]

7. Freud was a weird old geezer.

I read three of his books at about 19. I got some insights from them, but also remember thinking it wasn't the whole story. I moved on from there to find a synthesis of ideas.

[marylandblue]

9. His best book was "Civilization and its Discontents"

Which was more of philosophical work than psychological, and I think it still holds up pretty well when you lookat how barbaric "civilized" people can be.

[MineralMan]

13. I missed that one, and have moved on in what I'm reading.

So, I probably won't take the time to read it now.

[marylandblue]

8. So does that mean it can be scientifically demonstrated that Trump is, in fact, an asshole?

By all accounts, he was expelling shit since he was a toddler.

[Lordquinton]

11. You have a point, it's science

[Major Nikon]

10. The term isn't restricted to religionists

It just lends itself well to those who are heavily invested in mythology and wear it on their sleeve.

[MineralMan]

12. That's true, of course.