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castration complex n (Psychoanalysis) Psychoanal an unconscious fear of having one's genitals removed, as a punishment for wishing to have sex with a parent How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| As the paintings derived from a castration complex, the sight of many people holding debagged metaphoric cock and balls was entirely appropriate. Freud links a mother's nostalgia for a closer relationship with her son to an incestuous male fantasy (as in the epigraph from "The Uncanny"), while "Lacan makes the castration complex for both men and women . For this reason, argues Taylor, Freud's theory of the castration complex is inadequate for understanding any pre- or early modern reference to castration and its relation to sexual identity and culture. |
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