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[[Castration]] refers to the movement of [[separation]] installed by the [[Oedipal]] [[law]] between [[mother]] and [[infant]] and is thus a requirement of [[culture]]; it is the positive side of the [[prohibition]] of [[incest]]. [[Freud]] emphasizes that [[instinct]]ual [[renunciation]] is necessary for all [[cultural]] [[achievement]], associating it with the [[Oedipus]] [[complex]] and its [[resolution]].
[[Freud]] first used the term [[castration complex]] in 1908 in reference to an infantile theory of [[sexuality]] adopted by [[children]] to explain the [[difference between the [[sexes]].<ref>[[Sigmund, Freud]]. 1951.</ref> [[Freud]] emphasizes the [[phallocentrism]] of [[children]], who, assuming the [[possession]] of a [[penis]] in all [[living]] [[creatures]], attribute the [[lack]] of it to a [[castration]]. This very attribution of a [[lack]] is the result of a [[fantasy]] of a [[castration]] in relation to which the [[boy]] will experience [[castration anxiety]] and which will contribute to an experience of disillusionment in the [[girl]].
