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Castration anxiety Moderate

Castration anxiety has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

(psychoanalysis) anxiety resulting from real or imagined threats to your sexual functions; originally applied only to men but can in principle apply to women

2

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

See Also
vagina dentata
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
anxiety
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