castration anxiety

Even if this is in some way a correct contention (as analysing the castration complex was correct for Little Hans), it clearly must be a partial picture.

Spearing's comments alert us to the possibility that Patterson's overinvestment in beating the "dead horse" of the castration complex has robbed his essay of subtler psychic perspectives on the Pardoner's undefinable libidinal range.

According to Freud, the girl's initiation into femininity is triggered by the Oedipus complex, which at the same time is preceded and provoked by the castration complex. (3)

For this reason, argues Taylor, Freud's theory of the castration complex is inadequate for understanding any pre- or early modern reference to castration and its relation to sexual identity and culture.

Although she who was responsible for what the author calls Hemingway's "castration complex," for his permanent need to prove himself a "real man," it was also his mother who encouraged her son's literary interests.

Agents' sexual urges were put under the microscope by SOE psychologists fearing a "castration complex" might hamper their performance.