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	Castration complex - No Subject (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The boy fears that his own penis will be cut off by the father (castration anxiety), while the girl sees herself as already castrated (by the mother) and attempts to deny this or to compensate for it by seeking a child as a substitute for the penis (penis envy).
		In the case of the boy, the castration complex is the point of exit from the Oedipus complex, its terminal crisis; because of his fear of castration -- often aroused by a threat -- the boy renounces his desire for the mother and thus enters the latency period.
		In the case of the girl, the castration complex is the point of entry into the Oedipus complex; it is her resentment of the mother, whom she blames for depriving her of the penis, that causes her to redirect her libidinal desires away from the mother and onto the father.
	www.nosubject.com /Castration_Complex (1448 words)

	What Is Fear? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Fear is a general term for the anxiety and agitation felt at the presence of danger.
		Thirdly, the fear of castration, intense shame, and unhappiness associated with the Oedipal phase could be the genesis of fear both in males and females.
		As an example, when dealing with the fear of dying and death, the use of illusions or repressions are used by some people to create and maintain a belief in immortality or by repressing the consciousness of their mortality and eventual death.
	www.lutz-sanfilippo.com /library/counseling/lsffear.html (1143 words)

	Working - No Subject (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Because of his fear of castration (often aroused by a threat), the boy renounces his desire for the mother and thus enters the latency period.
		THE GIRL In the case of the girl, the castration complex is the point of entry into the Oedipus complex; it is her restment of the mother, whom she blames for depriving her of the penis, that causes her to redirect her libidinal desires away from the mother and onto the father.
		The Oedipus complex and the castration complex involve the renunciation of this attempt to be the imaginary phallus.
	www.nosubject.com /Working (5464 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.
		It asserts that boys, when seeing a girl's genitalia, will falsely assume that the girl had her penis removed, probably as punishment for some misbehavior.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Castration_anxiety (150 words)

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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].
		When Freud, blinded by the castration theory, emphasizes this moment, he overlooks the fact that the first danger situation in birth is a risk of life (death-anxiety, birth-anxiety) 4 and does not signify the loss of the penis.
		Castration anxiety can be traced back neither to a real danger situation nor is it, in the Freudian sense, anxiety at the loss of an object.
	www.ottorank.com /anx.html (4749 words)

	For the purposes of my book, question: - Hatrack River Writers Workshop
		Fear is not a matter of what someone has done in the past, it's a matter of what you cannot prevent that person from doing in the near future.
		Fear and loathing is tough to achieve and maintain and the best villians always have a psychological texture that fascinates us in spite of ourselves.
		She wants her mate to fear her because she is going to have another of his children and he doesn't want her to hurt the child.
	www.hatrack.com /forums/writers/forum/Forum1/HTML/003010.html (3622 words)

	template journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		For the girl the castration complex is a point of entry because for her there is no narcissistic motivation to save her penis from castration to move her away from desiring the mother.
		It is significant in that Anita kills and castrates the mother in her embodiment as the monstrous feminine specifically as the devouring maternal figure, that is Nicholaus, and Seraphina both Master Vampires, and Dominga Salvador the Vaudun priestess.
		For Buffy, her mother is castrated right from the beginning of the series on the level of knowledge, she is not aware of Buffy’s prowess as slayer and soon after she does she dies, leaving Buffy with no choice about giving up any residual desire to be the object of her mother’s desire.
	www.refractory.unimelb.edu.au /journalissues/vol8/hoffman.html (9790 words)

	Fear by A.S. Neill, from Summerhill (p124)
		Fear must be entirely eliminated-fear of adults, fear of punishment, fear of disapproval, fear of God.
		Fear is an important factor in the law of the wild.
		Often the fear of castration is a wish for castration-for castration as a punishment for masturbation, for castration as a means of getting rid of temptation.
	www.rohan.sdsu.edu /~rgibson/Neillonfear.htm (2735 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.
		It is noted in the psychoanalytic literature that operations actually performed on the penis, such as circumcision, arouse castration fears whatever the level of libidinal development and facilitate the development of homosexual trends in boys.
	www.cirp.org /library/psych/cansever (5006 words)

	David Reed's vampire study center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The old media fear that the new doppelgängers will live on their blood, that they will be bled dry, consumed and contaminated.
		The doppelgänger is thus a figure of the fear of loss, of death, and with that a figure of death itself.
		This is like the head of the Medusa, the myth of the castration complex, where the great number of snakes on the head conceals the fact that the one decisive snake is missing.
	thegalleriesatmoore.org /publications/vampirestudy/weiben22.shtml (2343 words)

	Vagina dentata - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although this myth obviously relates to the fear of castration, it is false to attribute it to Sigmund Freud as many have done (see below).
		For Freud the vagina signifies the fear of castration because the young (male) child assumes that the woman used to have a penis and now does not.
		For Freud the vagina is the result of castration, not the cause of it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vagina_dentata (1329 words)

	Freud and the Oppression of Women
		The little boy fears castration or as Freud states it: "At this (stage) the boy recalls to mind the threats he brought of himself by his doings with that organ, he begins to give credit to them and falls under the influence of fear castration.
		The second castration complex-- or the second phase of the castrations complex in the life of the human female-- occurs when the girl realizes that her mother does not have a penis either.
		For the boy castration complex is "the most powerful motive force in his subsequent development" (129) since it enables to overcome the Oedipus complex and attain the "strength and independence" necessary for moral behavior, whereas for the girl the castration complex leads them to the Oedipus complex as a "haven of refuge".
	www.maricarmenmartinez.com /Freud.html (2069 words)

	Why rapists should be hanged, not castrated
		The castration proposal, which comes as part of the Sexual Offences Bill package, has been so grossly misunderstood that it threatens to mutate from a solution to a social ill, to a full-scale gender war.
		In public men do not talk about it, they seem to view the Bill as another attempt to emasculate men.Their fear of castration in general is clouding their view of the rape offence.
		Because the castration proposal is perceived as a psychological and physical threat to manhood, it has been greeted with embarrassed laughter and the occasional snide remark about Fida and misguided women leaders.
	www.eastandard.net /archives/cl/print/news.php?articleid=4386 (950 words)

	sb3
		This archaic monster is terrifying to man because she is a castrator typical of the horror genre of vampires and psychopaths.
		James Kavanagh argues that this intensity of fear in Alien illustrated by the birth of the creature, from blooded mass to erect unfolding monster, is the reflection of a threatening psycho sexual phallus.
		The importance of contemporary sci-fi films is its dependence upon visualising psychological fears, and insisting the audience relies upon a female protagonist to defeat a female castrator, thus the male become obsolete in the narrative.
	www.arasite.org /sb3.html (1969 words)

	How to Build a Better Monster: Part II of Creed and male fear
		I think that women are victims because men fear them — and I agree with Creed that this fear is rooted in the belief that women (and their vaginas) are capable of castration.
		There are stories of toothed vaginas from populations in all areas of the world, and these speak to male fears of castration.
		This treat of castration or of being devoured is often accompanied by some sort of sexual promise, though.
	blogs.setonhill.edu /KateCielinski/004851.html (561 words)

	VCS
		My only answer is he himself experienced this fear of castration, and that he himself replaced it with a fetish.
		The adult treatment of the fetish vacillates between “affection to hostility.” the fear of castration during childhood is Freud’s explanation to homosexuality.
		Ultimately, the meaning of woman is sexual difference, the absence of the penis as visually ascertainable, the material evidence on which is based the castration complex essential for the organization of entrance to the symbolic order and the law of the father.
	homepage.newschool.edu /~quigleyt/vcsblog/2004_04_11_archive.html (3252 words)

	6. Psychoanalysing Them!
		Fearing retaliation, the boy may harbor fantasies that his mother or father will undergo a malevolent transformation and turn into a persecuting figure who will castrate or torture him for his crime.
		The boy may also fear that his mother will swallow him or cut off and swallow his penis with her mouth or vagina, since he is smaller and vulnerable.
		In the end, it is this (heavily analized) masculinity, in the form of the military and its urethral-anal-phallic weapons, that overcomes the mother and the fears of her.
	www.transparencynow.com /them2/thempsy4.htm (4495 words)

	American College of Orgonomy -
		Although the masochist strives for pleasure as everyone else does, a disturbing mechanism specific for masochism causes his striving to fail: every pleasure sensation, when it reaches a certain level of intensity, is perceived as a threat (fear of punishment).
		This fear is identified with the release and gratification afforded by evacuation, which is punishable.
		Since it is only beating and not castration he suffers, the beating relieves the castration fear and allows some sexual release.
	www.orgonomy.org /article_085.html (2508 words)

	PHOBIAS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		He thought it was « infantile phobia » : three to five-year old children who had panic fear of some animals or places which concealed the fear of castration (1905) and anguish of the ego (1920).
		The fear came from horses’big penis and from his mother who told him once she might cut his sex, which triggered a castration complex.
		Its symptoms are : difficult breathing, sensation of falling and dying, of having a heart attack, of becoming mad, of being ridiculous, with sensations of weakness in the throat or in the legs, shivers.
	www.unice.fr /mdl/uk_works/phobias.htm (617 words)

	egotistics - volume 1.1, 2000
		Thus the feminine as image of death is not only a screen for my fear of castration, but also an imaginary safety catch for the matricidal drive that, without such a representation, would pulverize me into melancholia if it did not drive me to crime.
		The child must be significantly threatened (castration, incest) in order to separate and remain separate from the mother of whom he was once a part, who gave him life and to whom he clings for life.
		With the horror of the rape their fear and obsessive abjection of the maternal has invoked, the patriarchal Andronici are at great pains to distance and trope such horror at all costs.
	www.bama.ua.edu /~ego/vol11/11tatum.html (6101 words)

	Castration
		Some owners fear to have their male dogs castrated because they believe it will cause them to get fat.
		Castration reduces testosterone levels so he is less likely to be attracted to other male dogs.
		The best time to castrate a male dog is around five to six months before he starts to lift his leg.
	www.certificate.net /wwio/pet0210011.shtml (1767 words)

	Eunuch Archive Message Boards - Castration and penectomy. It is frightening, stimulating or both?
		Castrated 14 May 2001 by Dr. Felix Spector in a proper, legal, and safe medical setting.
		For most individuals who have a castration fantasy (fetish or fixation) I believe that if real-world conditions were to approximate their fantasy closely enough, they would likely submit to their compulsion.
		It is a paradox that a defense mechanism could work by replacing fear of loss of sexuality with sexual desire itself.
	www.eunuch.org /vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2340 (2463 words)

	Chapter One
		She is concerned that the law of castration "is not taken as a contingent ideological formulation" and excludes the feminine (196).
		Likewise, if the traumas are assumed to be equivalent, and are linked to the fear of castration, then it is this fear or threat that defines the positions of male and female in the family, and also plays a defining role in the Gulag, etc.
		The law/threat/fear of castration is the male fear of becoming feminine (since women have already been castrated according to the law).
	www.louisville.edu /a-s/english/babo/wright/butlerchseven.html (558 words)

	To See or not to See. The ambiguity of Medusa in relation to Mulisch's The Procedure by Laurens de Vos
		Medusa's male observer is struck dumb for two reasons: he is enthralled by the Freudian castration fear on the one hand, and by his sexual fascination on the other.
		The castration fear is alleviated; fright acquires a fascinating touch.
		Despite the fear that the golem arouses, Isaac is fascinated by this Medusa image.
	www.imageandnarrative.be /uncanny/laurensdevos.htm (5089 words)

	Male phobias: what are the bravest men afraid of? - Pravda.Ru
		Fear of castration was invented by Sigmund Freud at the turn of the 20th century.
		They were awestruck when dealing with the doctors, and spoke openly of all their fears, which would later be tagged as subconscious.
		Half of the male population never doubted that women were subjected to castration in childhood, while the other half believed that vagina dentata really existed.
	english.pravda.ru /science/health/84124-1 (690 words)

	A GLOSSARY OF FREUDIAN TERMS
		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.
		Unlike the ego ideal's internalized standards, those of the conscience deal mainly with what is "bad." Ultimately, it is fear of castration.
		Penis Envy: a subset of the castration complex, it involves the supposed envy of "castrated" women of the male member, which they later seek to possess via pregnancy and childbirth.
	skeptically.org /minther/id6.html (5414 words)

	USCCCN's Castration Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Castration can decrease the sympathetic part of the autonomic nervous system, which is responsible for sexual hunger, and, at the same time, increase the effects of the parasympathetic system which controls the great feeling of satisfaction after orgasm.
		Although chemical and surgical castration are equally effective in lowering the testosterone level, the primary drawback to successfully maintaining this lower level requires a person who is castrated to undergo weekly maintenance injections, a procedure not required of a person who is castrated surgically.
		Greer also thought that the female fear of rape could best be likened to male fear of castration, but this analogy fell short because of the relative unlikelihood of castration compared to rape.
	hometown.aol.com /USCCCN/castration.index.html (17769 words)

	"The 'Knight of the Broken Lance' and his 'Trusty Steed': On Don Quixote and Rocinante", by John T. Cull (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In short, Cervantes uses the arm and the lance, and of course the sword, throughout the novel to intimate that his protagonist is not nearly as potent as the knights-errant he attempts to imitate.
		In addition to castration images implicit in the beheading of the giant Pandafilando, in the trick played on him at the inn by Maritornes and the innkeeper's daughter and in the surrendering of the yelmo de Mambrino, several others appear in the course of the novel.
		The knight's figurative emasculation is a consequence of his fear of sex, while the monarch's literal castration results from indulging his desires.
	www.h-net.org /~cervantes/csa/articf90/cull.htm (5424 words)

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