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castration anxiety

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castration anxiety

In psychoanalysis, the anxiety in men and boys arising from a usually imaginary threat to the genitals. It rarely refers to actual castration, but rather to the loss of the penis, or loss of the capacity for sexual pleasure, or a threat to masculinity.



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