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• a child soils itself, not him- or herself (Greetings from the grammar nazi) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.130.179.62 ( talk) 01:11, 4 March 2014 (UTC) reply
• anal expulsion can be viewed as a scary reality for those with some symptoms. This will provoke anger especially because there is nothing that individual can do about it. Unsigned comment noted on 2010-07-28 16:50, 5 July 2008‎ User:92.255.1.38
• The same is true for any psychosexual fixation, personality disorder or general personality flaw described here on wikipedia. Also I am not a big reader of Freud, but if I remember correctly then Freud believed most of these fixationscould be 'cured' by use of psychotherapy and free association. In modern times psychosexual fixations are considered less severe than actual personality disorders, as is also claimed in this very reliabe source; ( http://books.google.dk/books?id=elucB0qlM4kC&pg=PA49&lpg=PA49&dq=anal+expulsive&source=bl&ots=j_N7KC1QcC&sig=z7j83WrfL_Fo14WNiVIT9ABm2xo&hl=da&ei=3a8YTrmwB5H6sgaukYmqDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CGAQ6AEwCThk#v=onepage&q=anal%20expulsive&f=false) in fact I am just gonna add that claim to the article right now. Averagejoedev ( talk) 19:53, 9 July 2011 (UTC) reply

• This article has a lot of room for improvement. The explanation of the topic is extremely vague and overall unclear. There is no example of symptoms and could use a definition on the topic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jaybaker09 ( talk • contribs) 01:39, 18 September 2011 (UTC) reply

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

No consensus to move. Vegaswikian ( talk) 17:21, 17 October 2011 (UTC) reply

Anal expulsive → Anal-expulsive –

See discussion in Talk:Anal retentive#Move?.

• Proper spelling requires a hyphen. The existing redirect from 'Anal-expulsive' to 'Anal expulsive' must be removed, and a new redirect from 'Anal expulsive' to 'Anal-expulsive' should be added. Thanks. Tabledhote ( talk) 22:58, 10 October 2011 (UTC) reply
• Any requested move that involves hyphenation in titles is controversial and needs a talk page discussion. EdJohnston ( talk) 04:03, 11 October 2011 (UTC) reply

• Oppose both are adjectives, use a noun form instead. 70.49.126.190 ( talk) 03:54, 13 October 2011 (UTC) reply

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

There is a move discussion in progress which affects this page. Please participate at Talk:Anal retentive - Requested move and not in this talk page section. Thank you. — RM bot 19:30, 19 October 2011 (UTC) reply

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Expulsive. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 December 12#Expulsive until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Hog Farm _Bacon 07:11, 12 December 2020 (UTC) reply