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==Definition==
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[[Category:Psychoanalysis]]
==Dictionary==
The psychoanalytic definition of castration is rooted in the act feared by male children, namely, the removal of the penis.
In psychoanalysis, the [[castration complex]] (along with the [[Oedipus complex]]) is a major organizing principle of psychosexuality (and, more broadly speaking, of mental life in general).
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castration complex (complexe de castration)
==Misc==
===Phallic Phase===
The [[castration complex]] affects both sexes because its appearance is closely linked with the [[phallic phase]], a moment of psychosexual [[development]] when the child, whether boy or girl, knows only one genital organ - the male one.
The [[castration complex]]
The [[phallic phase]] is a moment of [[development|psychosexual development]] when the [[child]] -- whether [[boy]] or [[girl]] -- knows only one [[genital]] [[body|organ]] - the [[male]] one.
The [[phallic phase]] is also known as the infantile genital organization.
(because it -- the [[phallic phase]] -- is the first moment when)
The [[partial]] [[drive]]s are unified under the primacy of the [genital]] [[body|organ]]s.
It thus anticipates the genital organisation proper which arises at puberty, when the subject is aware of both the male and the female sexual organs.<ref>{{F}} "The Infantile Genital Organization." 1923. SE XIX. p.141</ref>
