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Definition of Castration anxiety

1. Noun. (psychoanalysis) anxiety resulting from real or imagined threats to your sexual functions; originally applied only to men but can in principle apply to women.

Medical Definition of Castration anxiety

1. A child's fear of injury to the genitals by the parent of the same sex as punishment for unconcious guilt over oedipal feelings, fantasied loss of the penis by a female or fear of its actual loss by a male, unconscious fear of injury from those in authority. Synonym: castration anxiety. (05 Mar 2000)

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Literary usage of Castration anxiety

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Few Kind Words about Hate: The Dark Side of Family Life and the Bible by Una Stannard (2007)
"Freud didn't object because castration anxiety was a sign that little Hans ... For Freud, castration anxiety and the Oedipus complex were Siamese twins ..."

2. Nervous and mental disease monograph series (1920)
"If one follows further the castration anxiety directed toward the physician, forbidden (for example, incestuous) wishes ..."

3. The Technique of Psychoanalysis by Smith Ely Jelliffe (1918)
"If one follows further the castration anxiety directed toward the physician, forbidden (for example, incestuous) wishes come regularly to light. ..."

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