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单词 castration complex
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Definition of castration complex in English:

castration complex

noun
Psychoanalysis
  • (in Freudian theory) an unconscious anxiety arising during psychosexual development, represented in males as a fear that the penis will be removed by the father in response to sexual interest in the mother, and in females as a compulsion to demonstrate that they have an adequate symbolic equivalent to the penis, whose absence is blamed on the mother.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It's really only an unresolved castration complex.
    • Access to language comes about through the castration complex and the recognition of sexual difference.
    • She crystallizes the paradox of ‘the traumatic moment’ of desire's birth - the castration complex, because she represents sexual difference.
    • I don't hate men, I don't blame men, I don't have some great throbbing castration complex swilling about in my pretty little head.
 
 

Definition of castration complex in US English:

castration complex

noun
Psychoanalysis
  • (in Freudian theory) an unconscious anxiety arising during psychosexual development, represented in males as a fear that the penis will be removed by the father in response to sexual interest in the mother, and in females as a compulsion to demonstrate that they have an adequate symbolic equivalent to the penis, whose absence is blamed on the mother.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It's really only an unresolved castration complex.
    • She crystallizes the paradox of ‘the traumatic moment’ of desire's birth - the castration complex, because she represents sexual difference.
    • I don't hate men, I don't blame men, I don't have some great throbbing castration complex swilling about in my pretty little head.
    • Access to language comes about through the castration complex and the recognition of sexual difference.
 
 
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