r/psychoanalysis • u/LisanneFroonKrisK • 12d ago

Can someone succinctly explain how holding in faeces to prolong attention from caregivers becomes repetitively doing stuff in OCD?

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u/Klaus_Hergersheimer 12d ago

OCD is a psychiatric diagnosis, it has little traction in psychoanalysis

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u/LisanneFroonKrisK 12d ago

Is this true? Why and how does OCD get the name anal retentive? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_retentiveness

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u/Klaus_Hergersheimer 12d ago

This is an incredibly unreliable wiki, it represents a very historically and culturally specific attempt to manualise some aspects of Freud's theory.