ABSTRACT
In marked cases of anal character-formation, relationships "are brought into the category of having and giving that is of proprietorship". Karl Abraham outlines the different forms that obsessive neurosis may take: a more developed form in which patients refuse to take initiatives expecting others to provide everything and the anal type of obsessive neurosis in which patients believe that they are unique and nobody else could carry out their activities. A contribution to the theory of the anal character is the earliest stage of the libido organisation and was described by Sigmund Freud as the pregenital stage. In any event, the desires that are derived from this oral stage are still free from the tendency to destroy the object, a characteristic of the next stage. Abraham continued to advance, and in the year of his death he addressed the genital phase of the libido.
