Am I the only one who gets annoyed with the use of this ugly word as a shorthand for any kind of hyper-organised behaviour?
It wasn't one of Freud's finest contributions, and most of his better stuff is payed much less lip service.
And in any case, doesn't it have a lot of baggage to do with sadism?
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Anal about 'anal'
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Threadworm · 23/03/2008 06:20
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