Meaning of castration anxiety | Babel Free

Definitions

The literal or metaphorical fear of emasculation; associated with the early psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“If we wonder now how easily men are threatened by women, and how the slightest expression of feminine power can generate castration anxieties in even a big man, then perhaps we would do well to think back on the origins of agriculture.”

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