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		He admits that castration anxiety is not "the sole motive force of the defensive processes which lead to neurosis" [S.E., 20:143] and he limits its pathogenic significance to the phobias [S.E., 20:122].
		I posit this psychical anxiety in the birth act itself, of which even according to Freud's opinion the new-born is capable, and not first of all in early childhood where it clearly arises at the loss of the mother, thus goes back to the first separation from her.
		The anxiety operative in the neurotic sexual disturbances in the man is -- corresponding to the connection in the woman -- an anxiety of the (feminine) genitals.
	www.ottorank.com /anx.html (4749 words)

	New York Freudian Society : Freud Abstracts Vol 20
		Now the castration anxiety is directed to a different object and expressed in a distorted form, so that the patient is afraid, not of being castrated by his father, but of being bitten by a horse or devoured by a wolf.
		The castration anxiety, belonging to the phallic phase, is also a fear of separation and is thus attached to the same determinant.
		Anxiety is the original reaction to helplessness in the trauma and is reproduced later on in the danger situation as a signal for help.
	nyfreudian.org /abstracts_24_20.html (8606 words)

	Cabinet Magazine Online - Something Where There Should be Nothing: On War and Anxiety
		However, it is not that the subject has some kind of a castration anxiety in regard to the Other, i.e., that he or she takes the Other as someone who might take something precious from him or her.
		The power of anxiety is that it creates a state of preparedness so that the subject might be less paralyzed and surprised by the events that might radically shatter his or her fantasy and thus cause the subject's breakdown or an emergence of a trauma.
		Anxiety is also linked to the desire of the Other—the fact that the desire of the Other does not recognize me provokes anxiety, but even if I have the impression that the Other does recognize me, it will never recognize me sufficiently.
	www.cabinetmagazine.org /issues/1/nothing.php (3801 words)

	Psychological trauma of circumcision in the phallic period could be avoided by using topical steroids
		Castration anxiety, despite its controversial nature, may develop during the phallic period; therefore, elective circumcision is generally avoided during this period.
		Castration anxiety was assessed by questioning the parents and evaluating the child by DSM-III-R. In the circumcision group, during the 1 month period before circumcision, 44 children displayed some degree of isolation, aggression towards the family members, disruption in relations with friends and fear of being alone.
		In the late 19th and early 20th century, Freud identified castration anxiety as the result of fear of operations on the genitals.
	www.cirp.org /library/psych/yilmaz1 (2358 words)

	Castration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Castration was frequently used in certain cultures, such as in Europe, the Middle East, India, Africa and China, for religious or social reasons.
		Castration has also been used in modern conflicts, as the Janjaweed militiamen currently (as of 2005) attacking citizens of the Darfur region in Sudan often castrate villagers and leave them to bleed to death as part of a campaign of terror [4].
		Castration is common in animal husbandry and animal fancy, where it is intended for favouring a given desired development of the animal or of its habits.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Castration (2016 words)

	Cansever: Psychological Effects of Circumcision
		Castration anxiety gains significance in the child's life also when related to the nature of relations characterizing the phallic stage.
		It is now generally accepted that under the impact of Oedipal strivings and castration anxiety, children at the phallic stage are disposed to experience fantastic fears of bodily damage.
		If prior to circumcision, they experienced anxiety over castration, this anxiety was more of a probability than reality an their ego was strong enough to keep it under control.
	www.cirp.org /library/psych/cansever (5006 words)

	IJPA - A book review in the current issue of the Journal
		He presents the novel idea that castration anxiety is a façade for deeper and earlier conflicts about passivity, and he develops and elaborates the concept of the narcissistic–masochistic character, arguing for the ‘power of the weak’ as a masochistic seduction of the powerful.
		He suggests that castration anxiety, prevalent as it is, can be understood as a ‘higher level fear that may serve as a defense against more primitive, cognitively chaotic and disorganizing infantile terrors’ (p.
		Castration anxiety is not necessarily the central fear for which pre-oedipal fears represent an evasion.
	ijpa.org /bookreview1.htm (1922 words)

	Irvine, "Abelard's Negotiations of Gender"
		Abelard's narrative of identity anxieties in his Letter of Consolation to a Friend,[1] incorrectly called by its modern editorial title, the Historia calamitatum (c.1132), is well known, but the significance of Abelard's representations of self and the body and his strategies for remasculinization have not yet become a concern of modern scholars.
		Castration was a recognized punishment for adultery in some regions, though the courts sought to control the application of the penalty.
		Castration was often used as a punishment for crimes against the orderly traffic in women, where specific configurations of patriarchal culture are maintained by men controlling other men's access to women by strict adherence to class and rank.
	www.georgetown.edu /labyrinth/conf/cs95/papers/irvine.html (3519 words)

	Castration anxiety - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Castration anxiety is an idea put forth by Sigmund Freud in his writings on the Oedipus complex; it posits a deep-seated fear or anxiety in boys and men said to originate during the phallic stage of sexual development.
		In 19th century Europe, it was not unheard of for parents to threaten their misbehaving sons with castration, or to otherwise threaten their genitals, a phenomenon Freud documents several times.
		This may help to explain Freud's reasoning regarding castration anxiety's role in human development.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Castration_anxiety (150 words)

	Mikis Theodorakis, Anti - Semitism, and Castration Terror
		In order to defuse an accusation generated in their own bad conscience, and in their anxiety of retaliation, they say to the Jews: “You are the Nazis, not we!” A child, who is called names, defends himself by repeating the same names towards the accuser.
		Castration was the punishment the Primal Father inflicted on his rebellious sons.
		The terror of death is a displacement of castration's anxiety.
	www.geocities.com /psychohistory2001/teodorakis.html (2760 words)

	castration
		Castration can be helpful in these cases but it is important to identify which dog is most likely to assume the more subordinate role and castrate that dog first to increase the status gap.
		Castration is unlikely to alter this behaviour as it is related to fear rather than hormone status.
		Castration can help alter a dog's behaviour at any age after puberty, but it is important to remember that castration will not have an overnight effect.
	www.gsdhelpline.com /castration.htm (3944 words)

	Castration anxiety (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		'''Castration anxiety''' is a fear posited by Sigmund Freud in his writings on the Oedipus complex at the genital stage of sexual development.
		Hans' fear and anxiety were thought to be the result of several factors, including the birth of a Little sister, his desire to replace his father as his mothers' mate, conflicts over masturbation, and others.
		The anxiety was seen as stemming from the incomplete repression and other defense mechanisms being used to combat the impulses involved in his sexual development.
	castration-anxiety.mindbit.com (468 words)

	Primary Psychiatry: Intensive Dynamic Psychotherapy of Anxiety and Depression (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The article describes the psychodynamic views of anxiety and depression, the criteria for the selection of patients for these treatments, and the delineation of the spectrum psychotherapeutic techniques that are used to foster the resolution of the unconscious dynamic conflicts which generate, or maintain, anxiety or depressive experiences.
		Freud explicitly stated that anxiety is a signal to the ego warning of the occurrence of trauma.
		As is the case for anxiety, in discussing psychodynamic theories of depression it is best to keep in mind that psychologic and psychodynamic influences work in concert with genetic vulnerabilities and neurobiologic alterations to produce the diverse clinical picture of depression.
	www.primarypsychiatry.com /aspx/articledetail.aspx?articleid=394 (5208 words)

	Other Voices 1.3 (January 1999), Judith Feher Guervich, " The Jouissance of the Other and The Prohibition of Incest: A ...
		Castration, for Lacan, is not a fear that is carried over by the super-ego after the dissolution of the oedipal complex.
		Castration assures the birth of the subject, whose desire is constituted by the signifiers of the desire of the Other.
		Castration anxiety and penis envy are therefore neurotic constructions that attempt to keep at arm's length a demand for a pound of flesh that the subject refuses to deliver.
	www.othervoices.org /1.3/jfg/other.html (2866 words)

	Freud’s Oedipal Masterplot
		Castration is the punishment for going outside these boundaries, but it can also describe the state of those that do transgress–not the effects of punishment necessarily, but the effects of simply transgressing the structures of the law.
		Similarly, he rationalized the traumatic nature of castration threats by appealing to "a phylogenetic memory-trace" of the actual deed, which long ago was performed by the jealous father of the primal horde whenever his sons became overly troublesome as sexual rivals [XXIII 190n., 200, 207].
		For example, the "no" of the symbolic father, an aspect of the primal phantasy of castration, would recall both the castration of the primal sons prior to their parricide–that is, the fantasy-memory of the primal trauma–and the flip side of this trauma, the totemic law.
	www.eric.anders.net /dissertation/oedipal.html (3479 words)

	IS ANTI-NEUTERING LINKED TO CASTRATION ANXIETY IN HUMANS MALES
		Often the wife is quite relaxed about having the dog castrated, whether for birth control, or problem prevention in a young dog as a standard procedures or as a later measure to help treat an unexpected behavioural problem.
		The psychological effect on owners of the term "castrate" is such that a multitude of euphemisms have sprung up to eliminate the eye-watering, knees crossed, hands-to-groin reflex.
		Despite the vet explaining the many health benefits of neutering (castration), the owner insisted that he would not do anything to the cat which he was not prepared to have done to himself.
	www.messybeast.com /antineuter2.htm (3997 words)

	"Castration: An Abbreviated History of Western Manhood" by Gary Taylor - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		One of the pillars of Freudian theory is the castration complex -- boys' unconscious fear that their fathers will chop off their penises, girls' unconscious anxiety that they once had penises that were chopped off.
		But many cultures established a place in the social and moral hierarchy for eunuchs -- who Taylor says were usually castrated in so-called savage societies for sale to so-called civilized ones, so that eunuchs would not have to serve their own mutilators.
		In Rome they were slaves, but Taylor reminds us that in the Assyrian, Persian, Byzantine and Ottoman empires, not to mention the Far East and Africa, eunuchs sat at the highest levels of the court, responsible for granting or withholding access to the emperor or administering justice in his name.
	dir.salon.com /books/review/2000/12/13/taylor/index.html (771 words)

	Rieder, Notes, "Patriarchal Fantasy and the Fecal Child in Mary Shelley's _Frankenstein_ and its Adaptations", ...
		"Castration anxiety" throughout this essay is used in this anatomically referential sense.
		As regards Hans's mother's "widdler," it is worthwhile remembering that in Freud's essay on femininity he makes it clear that for a woman to gain full genital maturity she must give up clitoral masturbation and instead achieve vaginal orgasm.
		The silent status of (symbolic or hysterical) clitorectomy, as compared to the expansive theme of male castration, testifies eloquently to the historical and ideological boundaries of Freud's version of normal or mature genital sexuality.
	www.rc.umd.edu /praxis/frankenstein/rieder/rieder_notes.html (740 words)

	Issues in Psychoanalytic Psychology Vol 23
		Extreme castration anxiety can no more be totally relieved by a wish fulfilling perception than the tension of hunger can be relieved by hallucination.
		To conflate the fact that mother does not have a penis with evidence of castration is already a fantasy: the little boy is "concrete" when he creates a perceptual identity between not immediately seeing a penis and the fantasy that it has been taken away.
		Ultimately, castration anxiety is the lesser of the two evils for him.
	www.wsi.org /Issues_Vol23_1_2_pg3.html (1007 words)

	A GLOSSARY OF FREUDIAN TERMS
		Anxiety, three types: reality (anxiety about the external world), normal or moral (anxiety about the superego's (originally, the parents') punishing shoulds and oughts), and neurotic (anxiety that a repressed sexual wish might surface).
		Anxiety is felt only by the ego and might have hereditary components.
		Castration fear (boys) and penis envy (girl) together make up the "castration complex." Because women feel less intense castration anxiety (being "castrated" already), they develop less of a superego.
	skeptically.org /minther/id6.html (5414 words)

	20-21st Century Castration Research - (Continued)
		I fully agree that castration should be the response to repeat offenders of certain sexual crimes.
		A 1991 Czechoslovakian study of 84 castrated sex offenders revealed that only 3 men (out of 84) committed another sex offense after castration, and none were of an aggressive character.
		A Danish study in the 1960s that followed 900 castrated sex offenders found that the recidivism rate dropped to 2.2%, and, similarly, none of these offenses were of an aggressive character.
	www.webspawner.com /users/castration2/index.html (1704 words)

	Birth Revisited
		He did concede that the act of birth represents an individual's first experience of anxiety, and that there is some connection between the birth experience and the form of later anxiety; but aside from serving as the prototype of anxiety, birth was considered fairly unremarkable in its effect on psychological life.
		The ego recoils from the primal anxiety of birth, and massive repression buries the memories of both the birth trauma and the blissful intrauterine state.
		The Oedipus complex is dethroned with birth replacing castration as the nuclear psychogenic trauma because, according to Rank (1936), "the historical and genetic primacy of the birth fear as compared with castration fear...
	www.primals.org /articles/khamsi03.html (6253 words)

	Brief Descriptions of the Content Analysis Scales
		The type of anxiety that this Scale measures is what could be termed "free" anxiety in contrast to "bound" anxiety, which manifests itself in psychobiological mechanisms of conversion and hypochondriacal symptoms, in compulsions, in doing and undoing, in withdrawal from human relationships, and so forth.
		Mutilation anxiety is synonymous with "castration" anxiety, and the descriptive items in the Scale pertaining to this subtype of anxiety are derived from clinical psychoanalytic psychology.
		Diffuse or non-specific anxiety is the category of anxiety in the Scale where it is impossible to distinguish the type of anxiety-fear which is being verbalized.
	www.gb-software.com /briefdef.htm (920 words)

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		Death anxiety is present, Dr. Pivin reminded us, in Ovid, and in Lucretius, Montaigne, and in "poets" and "sages." This is a list which could stand multiplication by the highest numbers.
		We ought then, receive the news that psychoanalysts deny death anxiety, with the same sense of import that we receive the news from the Flat Earth Society that we are living on a plane.
		Dr. Pavin indicated, vis-à-vis "castration anxiety," as the ground for "death anxiety" is violative of the laws of logic.
	faculty.washington.edu /nelgee/newsletter/2001/0400/b_sullivan.htm (1227 words)

	Castration Anxiety Photo \| TrekLens
		Castration for Freud it is the punishment of losing the genital organ.
		Freud speculated that castration was actually practised in the primaeval human family by the jealous, cruel father; he saw the ritual of circumcision as a recognisable relic.
		The threat of castration is the motive for the resolution of the *Oedipus complex.
	www.treklens.com /gallery/Europe/photo203031.htm (456 words)

	Medical Dictionary: Anxiety - WrongDiagnosis.com - WrongDiagnosis.com
		Anxiety (medical condition): Some level of anxiety is very common, and people worry about all sorts of things.
		However, severe anxiety or exaggerated worry, fear, phobias, or other major concerns might indicate some type of anxiety disorder or other psychological disorder.
		Anxiety: Feelings of fear, dread, and uneasiness that may occur as a reaction to stress.
	www.wrongdiagnosis.com /medical/anxiety_printer.htm (263 words)

	SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY
		The superego is the father impersonalized, and the dread of the father's threat of castration is converted to social anxiety or dread of conscience.
		The initial cause of anxiety, introduced by the ego, is the loss of perception of the object which becomes equated with the loss of the object.
		Whereas anxiety is the reaction to the danger which the object loss entails, grief is the reaction to actual object loss (807).
	ssr1.uchicago.edu /PRELIMS/Theory/thmisc2.html (6441 words)

	The psychology of Identity: Pride and prejudice, loneliness and encounter
		We commonly castrate male animals by surgically removing their testicles so as to make the animals less aggressive or to make them reproductively sterile.
		Sigmund Freud, in his philosophy of psychoanalysis, gave a psychological twist to castration when he assumed that all young boys felt an anxiety about losing the penis, and that all young girls felt an anxiety about having lost it.
		Castration, for Lacan, meant the horrifying recognition of our human fragmentation, the very fragmentation that the infant has to “cover up” through its identifications with the world as it builds up a coherent personality.
	www.guidetopsychology.com /identity.htm (3077 words)

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