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Castration Complex

The "Castration Complex" is a psychoanalytic construct denoting a child’s unconscious anxiety, arising during the phallic stage of psychosexual development, that the same-sex parent will punish sexual desires toward the opposite-sex parent by inflicting genital mutilation, thereby serving as a pivotal mechanism in the resolution of the Oedipus complex and the formation of the super-ego.

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2017–2026

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Eunuchs in Contemporary Society: Expectations, Consequences, and Adjustments to Castration (Part II)

Michelle A. Brett, Lesley F. Roberts, Thomas W. Johnson et al. · The Journal of Sexual Medicine · 2007 · 99 citations

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"Genital Mutilation" or "Symbolic Birth?" Female Circumcision, Lost Origins, and the Aculturalism of Feminist/Western Thought

Sylvia Wynter · eYLS (Yale Law School) · 1997 · 76 citations · Full text

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Eunuchs in Contemporary Society: Characterizing Men Who are Voluntarily Castrated (Part I)

Thomas W. Johnson, Michelle A. Brett, Lesley F. Roberts et al. · The Journal of Sexual Medicine · 2007 · 56 citations

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The Devil's Lane: Sex and Race in the Early South

Kirsten E. Wood, Catherine Clinton, Michele Gillespie · Journal of the Early Republic · 1998 · 51 citations

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On the girl's entry into the Oedipus complex.

Henri Parens, Linda A. Pollock, Julia Stern et al. · PubMed · 1976 · 45 citations

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Authors

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  1. MA
    Michelle A. Brett

    California State University, Chico, United States

    2 publications · 155 citations

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  2. LF
    Lesley F. Roberts

    Dalhousie University, Canada

    2 publications · 155 citations

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  3. TW
    Thomas W. Johnson

    California State University, Chico, United States

    2 publications · 155 citations

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  4. CC
    Catherine Clinton

    Boston Children's Hospital, United States

    2 publications · 75 citations

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  5. MG
    Michele Gillespie

    Wake Forest University, United States

    2 publications · 75 citations

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Institutions

32

  1. California State University, Chico

    Chico, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    155 citations

  2. Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California

    San Francisco, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    57 citations

  3. Dalhousie University

    Halifax, Canada

    2 h-index

    6 publications

    465 citations

  4. Massachusetts General Hospital

    Boston, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    58 citations

  5. Johns Hopkins University

    Baltimore, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    44 citations

  6. Karolinska University Hospital

    Stockholm, Sweden

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    70 citations

  7. Case Western Reserve University

    Cleveland, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    29 citations

  8. York College of Pennsylvania

    York, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    45 citations

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  1. PubMed

    Repository · 7 publications · 175 citations

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  2. The Journal of Sexual Medicine

    2 publications · 155 citations

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  3. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

    JAPA · 2 publications · 76 citations

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  5. Critical Inquiry

    1 publications · 18 citations

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