One of your neighbors can best be described as a slob. He smells because he doesn't bathe, he leaves every dish he owns sitting in his kitchen sink, and he just throws his garbage into the yard. The Board of Health is contemplating condemning his house. Freud would trace your neighbor's behavior to

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Freud's psychosexual stages of development suggest that individuals who are fixated in the anal stage, which occurs around ages 1-3, may exhibit behaviors related to orderliness or messiness in adulthood. Your neighbor's lack of cleanliness and order could be seen as a manifestation of fixation in the anal stage, according to Freudian theory.  Adult characteristics of fixation in this stage include extraordinary orderliness and obstinacy, or just the opposite, as in this case. Freud believed that experiences in the early stages of psychosexual development have a profound effect on personality and adult behaviors.

One of Your Neighbors Can Best Be Described as a Slob