That these images may give further justification to the castration complex undoubtedly crossed the artist's mind.

Freud identified Schreber's fantasy of becoming a woman as a castration complex.

The common link is what was first called 'the castration complex', but a better term would be the repudiation of the feminine, says Freud.

Observe that we have here once again the same origin from the castration complex and the same transformation of affect!

An alienist came fromBerlin and said I was suffering from female castration complex.

He therefore pays attention to some of its most spectacular and to our eyes irrational forms, such as a widespread castration complex and symbolic inversion.

She describes and rejects Freud's "female castration complex" and says that girls do learn to envy aspects of boys' urination.

To Freud, hats (and heads) were symbols of the male genital organ; loss of the hat was related to the castration complex.

"To blame the Oedipus complex or the castration complex for Hitler's problems - these are universal concepts and you need something much more specific."

I am a Freudian';" and featured the unconscious, the castration complex, the ego, identification, and language as subjective perception.

The hair upon Medusa's head is frequently represented in works of art in the form of snakes, and these once again are derived form the castration complex.

The castration complex is formed when the child discovers that this Other is not complete because there is a "Lack (manque)" in the Other.

Anonymous, "The Phallic Phase and the Subjective Import of the Castration Complex" in Feminine Sexuality, Norton & Co., pp.

In a corresponding reformulation of the castration complex, Jones introduced the concept of "aphanisis" to refer to the fear of "the permanent extinction of the capacity (including opportunity) for sexual enjoyment".

Judith was in the news at the time of the opera's creation: Klimt painted her as an erotic icon, while Freud argued that her murder of Holofernes was emblematic of the castration complex.

The behaviour of neurotic children towards their parents in the Oedipus and castration complex abounds in such reactions, which seem unjustified in the individual case and only become intelligible phylogenetically - by their connection with the experience of earlier generations.

Peace also notes that some critics have interpreted the story as referring to a castration complex: the removal of Kovalyov's nose (and its developing a mind of its own) threaten both his chances of acquiring a position of power and of being a success with women.

Influenced by Klein, and initiating what became known as the "Jones-Freud controversy", Jones set out to explore a range of interlinked topics in the theory of early psychic development such as the structure and genesis of the superego and the nature of the feminine castration complex.

In Freudian terms these would be clear symbols of the fear of castration, but the laws of classical psychoanalytic interpretation are bent and broken in Such, and if anything it is the concept of the castration complex itself that is mutilated by its subjection to the laws of physics.