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castration anxiety

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Noun1.castration anxiety - (psychoanalysis) anxiety resulting from real or imagined threats to your sexual functions; originally applied only to men but can in principle apply to women
depth psychology, psychoanalysis, analysis - a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud; "his physician recommended psychoanalysis"
anxiety, anxiousness - (psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by compulsive behavior or attacks of panic
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12) Cynical Realism echoes Sergei Pankeiev's nightmares of white wolves, thereby evoking the notion of vagina dentata, linked to castration anxiety and thus detrimental to the "organs" of male power.
Objects on stage (notes from pre-and post-): in this context 'object' ... by Tupitsyn, Victor / C: International Contemporary Art
Alleging seduction, sodomy, incest, and bestiality, his diagnosis of Eakins includes scopophilia, castration anxiety, and even compulsive milk-drinking (because the painter "felt deprived of maternal affection").
Love of the body in fearful times by Capozzola, Christopher / The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
32) Mulvey argues that the male spectator can escape this castration anxiety either through voyeurism and demystification of the woman, or by turning the woman into a one-dimensional fetish that is reassuring rather than dangerous: 'This second avenue, fetishistic scopophilia, builds up the physical beauty of the object, transforming it into something satisfying in itself'.
Female masculinity in Weimar cinema by Sutton, Katie / Traffic (Parkville)
 
 
 
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