phallocentricadj.
/ˌfalə(ʊ)ˈsɛntrɪk/, U.S. /ˌfæloʊˈsɛntrɪk/ Centred on the phallus, esp. as the symbol of male dominance and authority; dominated by male attitudes or cultural outlook, man-centred.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > [adjective] > discriminatory or inegalitarian > by sex
phallocentric1927
anti-feminist1936
phallic-centred1963
male-chauvinistic1968
sexist1968
phallocratic1975
phallicist1991
the world > life > the body > sex organs > male sex organs > [adjective] > penis > centred on (as symbol of male superiority)
phallocentric1927
phallicist1991
the mind > mental capacity > psychology > theory of psychoanalysis > libido > obsession > [adjective] > obsessed with > with phallus
phallocentric1927
phallicist1991
1927 E. Jones in Internat. Jrnl. Psycho-anal. 8 459 There is a healthy suspicion growing that men analysts have been led to adopt an unduly phallo-centric view of the problems in question.
1951 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. 42 382 The phallocentric tendencies of early psychology.
1977 R. Holland Self & Social Context viii. 254 Wilden's critique of Lacan, whose valuable exposition of the Imaginary does not allow him to escape its vicissitudes, as can be seen by his phallocentrism and his elitist conceptual violence.
1986 Year's Work Eng. Stud. 1983 611 She consequently suggests the force of challenging phallocentric discourse with the question: ‘What is man that the itinerary of his desire creates such a text?’
2000 W. Monahan Light House ix. 56 He's intensely phallocentric, of course, but his more epiphanic work has such control and sensitivity.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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