Let's imagine 'oral character traits' as being like 'red blood cells' -- they are designed to bring 'nutrition' and 'energy' into the body and distribute this nutrition and energy to all the different cells and organs of the body.
In contrast, the 'anal character traits' are like 'white blood cells' -- they are designed to protect the mind and body -- protect The Self -- against any and all 'toxic or non-friendly intruders'.
With this in mind, let's look at ten different 'anal-sub-personalities' and 'anal sub-personality traits' that are designed to help protect The Self. These are a combination of the Classical Freudian 'anal' personality-types -- namely the 'anal-retentive' personality and 'the anal-sadistic' personality -- and my extensions and/or modifications of these Classical Freudian 'anal sub-types'.
1. The Anal-Righteous Personality: Very rule-oriented, righteous people. Preachers, politicians, lawyers, some teachers, accountants, bookkeepers, some management people, protesters, social activists...
2. The Anal-Rejecting Personality: People who are very quick to judge -- and to reject -- other people;
3. The Anal-Schizoid Personality: Introverted, distancing people...afraid of, and/or angry at, other people...would prefer to stay far away from 'the madding crowd'...hermits...people who have fallen hard in love, been jilted, and enclosed their hearts in 'defensive, compensatory character armour', not letting most, or any, people close to their hearts, or sometimes, even near them at all...This is not only a 'social split' with other people but generally also a 'a cognitive-emotional split within The Self'...These are, for the most part, 'alienated' people who have 'lost contact with their Souls', and/or may partly compensate again with one or more pets -- usually, a cat, two cats, three cats...A cat -- more than a dog -- seems to share their 'solitary existence';
4. The Anal-Abandoning Personality: Quick to abandon other people in relationships, usually based on one or more childhood abandonments....Better to abandon others before they abandon me...
5. The Anal-Sadistic Personality: Cruel, mean people -- or people with a cruel, mean streak to them -- who like to hurt other people either verbally and/or physically, you can often pick this trait up in younger or older children based on how they treat younger children and/or animals...Again, this trait is usually a 'compensatory reaction' -- an 'identification with the aggressor' -- relative to a parent or older sibling, or bully at school, who has been mean and cruel to them...
6. The Anal-Retentive Personality: Neat, orderly, very organized, very punctual, parsimoinious (cheap) with money -- the 'Classic Freudian Anal-Retentive Personality';
7. The Anal-Phobic Personality: Same idea, very 'germaphobic' -- scared to death of germs and dirt and bad hygiene....to an extreme degree....to the point of wearing gloves to avoid contact with germs....understandable , even imperative, in a hospital, sometimes a little or lot extreme in the person's own impeccable, spotless home...
8. The Anal-Narcissistic Personality: The reverse of the last type -- loves to 'play in the dirt', to get 'down and dirty', 'wrestle in the mud', 'Pigpen', 'Diogenes', has essentially identified with 'The God of Dirt and Mess'....generally very disorganized...
9. The Anal-Rebellious Personality: Very 'anti-authoritarian'...hates authoritarian personality...a compensatory reaction usually to a very authoritarian, righteous parent...the rebel, the outcast, the protester, the social activist, the graffiti writer, the anarchist....wants to bring down power regimes...and symbols of righteous, political, legal, religious, and/or any other perceived 'freedom-limiting' institution of power...
10. The Anal-Explosive Personality: Very bad righteous temper...to go along with any and/or all of the personality types listed above...might be a fast or slow, overt or covert temper...but it is usually there to some greater or lesser degree depending on the extent of self-righteousness...
-- dgb, April 17th, 2011,
-- David Gordon Bain
