Psychodynamic theory has attempted to explain obsessive-compulsive personality disorder as arising from fixation at one of the psychosexual stages of development during childhood. What type of fixation has been specifically suggested as the culprit behind this personality disorder?

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Trevor Christensen

16 July, 06:11

Psychodynamic theory has attempted to explain obsessive-compulsive personality disorder as arising from fixation at one of the psychosexual stages of development during childhood. What type of fixation has been specifically suggested as the culprit behind this personality disorder?

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Carly Finley · Answer 1

Answer: A nal fixation

Explanation: According to Sigmund Freud, there are certain stages for sexual (libido) development. The second stage is the a nal stage, where children at that age tend to look at their faeces as their own production and sometimes play with it or things that are sensory similar (clay for example). A person who has a fixation in this stage, cannot tolerate being dirty although it causes him/her an unconscious pleasure so they transform it into the contrary, being extremely neat.