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phallic Psychoanal a. relating to a stage of psychosexual development during which a male child's interest is concentrated on the genital organs b. designating personality traits, such as conceit and self-assurance, due to fixation at the phallic stage of development c. (in Freudian theory) denoting a phase of early childhood in which there is a belief that both sexes possess a phallus 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 one originated with the authors of the Dithyramb, the other with those of the phallic songs, which are still in use in many of our cities. The swede-field in which she and her companion were set hacking was a stretch of a hundred odd acres, in one patch, on the highest ground of the farm, rising above stony lanchets or lynchets--the outcrop of siliceous veins in the chalk formation, composed of myriads of loose white flints in bulbous, cusped, and phallic shapes. There, upon huge pedestals of dark rock, sculptured with rude emblems of the Phallic worship, separated from each other by a distance of forty paces, and looking down the road which crossed some sixty miles of plain to Loo, were three colossal seated forms--two male and one female--each measuring about thirty feet from the crown of its head to the pedestal. |
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