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castration anxiety |
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castration anxiety [ka′strā·shən aŋ′zī·ə·dē] (psychology) Anxiety due to the fear of loss of the genitals or injury to them. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The gruesome thriller "Hard Candy" posits itself as a "Little Red Riding Hood" for the computer age, effectively exploiting male castration fears and the news media's fixation with pedophiles. Without the intense unconscious push males get from Oedipally derived castration fears, the female superego ends up weaker than that of males, Freud posited. |
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