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Noun Concept

Categories: Freudian psychology, Castration, Men's health, Human penis, Complex (psychology)

castration anxiety Anxiety, castration Castration Complex Castration fear

(psychoanalysis) anxiety resulting from real or imagined threats to your sexual functions; originally applied only to men but can in principle apply to women WordNet 3.0

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(psychoanalysis) anxiety resulting from real or imagined threats to your sexual functions; originally applied only to men but can in principle apply to women WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

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 his earliest psychoanalytic theories. Wikipedia

Fear of emasculation in both the literal and metaphorical sense Wikidata

In Freudian psychoanalysis the fear of losing one's penis. OmegaWiki

IS A

anxiety

psychoanalytic theory

CATEGORY DOMAIN

psychoanalysis

DISCOVERER OR INVENTOR

Freud

OPPOSITE OF

penis envy

SAID TO BE THE SAME AS