castration anxiety
Freudian psychosexual fear
Castration anxiety is a psychoanalytic concept describing a boy's unconscious fear of losing his penis, typically as punishment from his father for desiring his mother.
Freud considered it central to the Oedipus complex and male psychological development.
The term extends loosely to any male anxiety about emasculation or loss of power: His obsession with sports cars seems like castration anxiety in action.
Removal of masculine power
- impotenceLack of strength or power
- virilityMasculine strength and potency
- manhoodAdult male status
- potencyDegree of strength
masculinity · inadequacy · vulnerability · insecurity · inferiority · weakness · humiliation · shame
Psychosexual attachment to mother
- FreudianOf unconscious-mind theory
- psychoanalysisTreatment via unconscious exploration
- unconsciousNot awake or aware
- repressionUnconscious blocking of thoughts
superego · neurosis · fixation · symbolism · libido · ego · id · defense mechanism
Intense anticipatory fear
- phobiaPersistent irrational dread
- paranoiaIrrational persecution fears
- threatIndication of potential harm
- tabooCultural or social prohibition
terror · apprehension · foreboding · panic · horror · primal fear · nightmare · obsession
emasculation
Removal of masculine power
potency · masculinity · inadequacy · vulnerability · insecurity · inferiority · weakness · humiliation · shame · diminishment
Oedipus complex
Psychosexual attachment to mother
- FreudianOf unconscious-mind theory
- psychoanalysisTreatment via unconscious exploration
- unconsciousNot awake or aware
repression · superego · neurosis · fixation · symbolism · libido · ego · id · defense mechanism · complex
dread
Intense anticipatory fear
- phobiaPersistent irrational dread
- paranoiaIrrational persecution fears
- threatIndication of potential harm
taboo · terror · apprehension · foreboding · panic · horror · primal fear · nightmare · obsession · intrusive thought
- psychoanalysisFreud, id, ego, unconscious, Sigmund Freud
- psychosexualitylibido, sexuality, sexual orientation, heterosexuality, homosexuality
anxiety, anxious, anxiously, anxieties, anxiousness, emasculate, castrate, castration, castrated