Ali is obsessed with cleanliness and control. Which stage of Freud’s Stages of Psychosexual Development has Ali become fixated at?

An*al stage

Explanation:

By Freud’s theory of psychosexual development, the child has to pass through five stages properly to become a healthy, functional adult. The an*al stage is the second stage which starts at around one and a half years and lasts until three years. During this time, the child is thought about controlling bowel movements and bladder, and how to properly use the toilet.

By Freud’s theory, those children who become fixated at this stage, end up being rigid people with obsessive personalities. They focus too much on order and cleanness during their lives. They can become too self-controlled with the trouble of letting the control go. Fixations happen if the child’s toilet training begins too early or if the parents are too strict during this stage.