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phallic
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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


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However, thinking about Soviet Constructivism when faced with a large ensemble of Italian nationalist speed-movement paintings--topped by the Duce's phallically protruding chin ("I am referring here to the group of paintings by Gerardo Dottori, Polittico fascista, 1934")--gives one pause.
Outfitted with paint-spraying apparatuses that protrude phallically from their nether regions (the artist used this equipment to liberally splatter multicolored pigment around before the show), the "Duck Generals," with their hemispherical breasts ("tits" seems, for once, a better word here) for eyes, stand facing each other in three evenly spaced pairs.
Paul Hunter's unusually diminutive Nick Bottom was powerfully overacted and he played his suicide as a protracted amputation of toes, fingers, genitals, arms, legs, tongue and eyes before laying on his back, his sword sticking out phallically between his legs.
 
 
 
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