A thorough dissection of a given idea down to its etymology, history, and countless bullshit considered ancillary to said idea. Considered on par with dissertations in academia, rectalyses are provided by Masters and honors undergraduate students seeking admission to medical school and are proctored by... well, proctologists and other MDs.
Jeffrey: How was that exam? You don't look good.
Adam: Bruh, I don't feel good! I got the worst rectalysis of my lifetime. Poor bum's gonna be sore this week. :(
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)