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castration anxiety
(redirected from castration complex)

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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.
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Circumcision plays a key role in this analysis because of its literal embodiment of Jews' otherness, symbolic link with the Freudian castration complex, and the majority Germanic view of Jewish men of the period as feminized.
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