Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com
Showing results for castration complex. Search instead for ranalian+complex.

castration complex

American  

noun

Psychoanalysis.

  1. an unconscious fear of losing the genital organs, especially as punishment for oedipal feelings.

castration complex British  

noun

  1. psychoanal an unconscious fear of having one's genitals removed, as a punishment for wishing to have sex with a parent

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of castration complex

First recorded in 1910–15

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.