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complexIn psychology, a group of ideas and feelings that have become repressed because they are distasteful to the person in whose mind they arose, but are still active in the depths of the person's unconscious mind, continuing to affect his or her life and actions, even though he or she is no longer fully aware of their existence. Typical examples include the Oedipus complex and the inferiority complex. 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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As the paintings derived from a castration complex, the sight of many people holding debagged metaphoric cock and balls was entirely appropriate. Freud links a mother's nostalgia for a closer relationship with her son to an incestuous male fantasy (as in the epigraph from "The Uncanny"), while "Lacan makes the castration complex for both men and women . 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. |
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