According to Freud, someone who goes through life "holding things back" and is orderly, stingy, and stubborn was probably fixated in the

A) oral stage.
B) anal stage.
C) phallic stage.
D) latency period.

Anal Stage

A phase in Freud's psychosexual development theory, occurring between 18 months and three years of age, where pleasure centers on bowel and bladder elimination.

Psychosexual Development

Sigmund Freud's theory describing how personality develops through stages focused on sexual pleasure from different body areas.

Fixated

In psychology, an obsessive focus or attachment to an idea, person, or object, often at the expense of more useful or adaptive behaviors.