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castration anxiety

noun

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  1. The literal or metaphorical fear of emasculation

    The literal or metaphorical fear of emasculation; associated with the early psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud.

    • If we wonder now how easily men are threatened by women, and how the slightest expression of feminine power can generate castration anxieties in even a big man, then perhaps we would do well to think back on the origins of agriculture.

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