• have been castrated. This entails a legacy of castration anxiety for the boy and penis envy for the girl. Freud argued that the castration complex is closely...
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    Castration anxiety is an overwhelming fear of damage to, or loss of, the penis—a derivative of Sigmund Freud's theory of the castration complex, one of...
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    Freud's ideas of castration anxiety and penis envy refer to the differences of the sexes in their experience of the Oedipus complex. The complex is thought...
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    alternative explanation for the Madonna–whore complex: This earlier theory is based not on oedipal-based castration anxiety but on man's primary hatred of women...
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    (castration complex, especially when encountered while voyeuristically exploring the female body from below). Otto Fenichel similarly saw castration fear...
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    which arise as effects of the castration complex. Anatomical difference, the possession of a penis, induces castration anxiety for the boy whereas the...
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    Gelding (redirect from Horse castration)
    castration was performed without anesthesia and was thus far more stressful on the animal. Modern veterinary techniques can now accomplish castration...
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  • Equating decapitation with castration, Freud maintained that the terror of Medusa was a reflection of the castration complex aroused in the young boy when...
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  • Chemical castration is castration via anaphrodisiac drugs, whether to reduce libido and sexual activity, to treat cancer, or otherwise. Unlike surgical...
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    Mind of Genndy Tartakovsky Comes a Comedy About a Horndog With a Castration Complex". Variety. Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved June 11, 2025. Truitt...
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  • penis to the mother—a belief the loss of which helps precipitate the castration complex. Thereafter males may seek fetishistic substitutes in women for the...
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  • ISBN 978-0819561442. According to basic psychoanalytic theory, the castration complex establishes the peculiar capacity of human bodies to devise nonbodily...
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  • the approach of jouissance as such". He linked jouissance to the castration complex, and especially to the aggression of the death drives. In feminist...
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    All further doubts are removed when we learn the details of their 'castration complex' from the analysis of neurotic patients, and realize its immense importance...
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    worldview: The Croats, feminized by the Catholic religion, suffer from a castration complex. That makes them totally incapable of exercising authority over others...
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    structure and genesis of the superego and the nature of the feminine castration complex. He coined the term phallocentrism in a critique of Freud's account...
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    perception of Jocasta, of the maternal, the feminine, and the Oedipal/castration model in relation to the mother-child links. Atossa, in the Greek tragedy...
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    relationship in the Electra complex derives from penis envy, caused by the mother, who also caused the girl's castration; however, upon re-aligning her...
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    castrate". Rebello et al. 2021, "Metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer". Teo, Rathkopf & Kantoff 2019, "Management of metastatic castration-resistant...
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    "Three Essays" also included the concepts of penis envy, castration anxiety, and the Oedipus complex. The Three Essays underwent a series of rewritings and...
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    (April 1, 2001). "Castration in the Horse". The Horse. Retrieved March 3, 2014. Schmid, Mark (February 20, 2010). "What is Castration / Spaying / Neutering...
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  • Monstrosity and Horror Film: Gynaehorror. New York, NY: Routledge. "Castration Complex | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 17 October 2018...
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  • for the castrated, incomplete other is the "barred other". Feminist thinkers have both utilised and criticised Lacan's concepts of castration and the...
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  • Oxford: Blackwell. Horney, Karen (1973), "On the Genesis of the Castration Complex in Women (1922)", in Miller, J. B. (ed.), Psychoanalysis and Women...
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  • inner situation manifests itself as a feeling of inferiority, even a castration complex, genital phobia. The myth of Oedipus is about the attempt to liberate...
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  • the ovaries of females is the biological equivalent of castration of males; the term castration is only occasionally used in the medical literature to...
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    Schreber. Freud identified Schreber's fantasy of becoming a woman as a castration complex. The central image of two pairs of legs refers to Schreber's hermaphroditic...
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  • would have attributed the motivation for the conflict and for the castration complex to resource allocation issues rather than to sexual jealousy. Incidentally...
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    Schreber. Freud identified Schreber's fantasy of becoming a woman as a castration complex. The central image of two pairs of legs refers to Schreber's hermaphroditic...
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  • Abraham's presentation on femininity, penis envy and the feminine castration complex at the Hague Congress in 1920, Deutsch left analysis with Freud to...
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