• Sigmund Freud (May 6, 1856 - September 23, 1939) was an Austrian neurologist who founded the psychoanalytic school of psychiatry. (crystalinks.com)
  • It was the step that came before the basic psychoanalytic technique called free association (invented by Freud). (exploringyourmind.com)
  • Anna Freud (1952) pointed out that operations on the genitals, such as circumcision, would cause "castration anxiety. (drmomma.org)
  • In Freudian psychoanalysis, castration anxiety (Kastrationsangst) refers to an unconscious fear of penile loss that originates during the phallic stage of psychosexual development and continues into adulthood. (wikipedia.org)
  • According to Freudian psychoanalysis, castration anxiety can be completely overwhelming to the individual, often breaching other aspects of his or her life. (wikipedia.org)
  • James W. Anderson is the Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University, past President of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society and Editor of the Annual of Psychoanalysis . (psychohistory.us)
  • So, in declaring Freud's use of penis-envy or castration-anxiety as essentialised and misogynistic forms within his thought, is only to reduce them to a function that he himself never sought. (xenogothic.com)
  • Castration anxiety is an overwhelming fear of damage to, or loss of, the penis-a derivative of Sigmund Freud's theory of the castration complex, one of his earliest psychoanalytic theories. (wikipedia.org)
  • In Freud's theory, it is the child's perception of anatomical difference (the possession of a penis) that induces castration anxiety as a result of an assumed paternal threat made in response to their sexual proclivities. (wikipedia.org)
  • Although typically associated with males, castration anxiety is thought to be experienced, in differing ways, by both sexes. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the literal sense, castration anxiety refers to a child's fear of having their genitalia disfigured or removed as punishment for Oedipal desire. (wikipedia.org)
  • Castration anxiety can also refer to being castrated symbolically. (wikipedia.org)
  • Symbolic castration anxiety refers to the fear of being degraded, dominated or made insignificant, usually an irrational fear where the person will go to extreme lengths to save their pride and/or perceives trivial things as being degrading making their anxiety restrictive and sometimes damaging. (wikipedia.org)
  • This can also tie in with literal castration anxiety in fearing the loss of virility or sexual dominance. (wikipedia.org)
  • citation needed] A link has been found between castration anxiety and fear of death. (wikipedia.org)
  • Essentially, castration anxiety can lead to a fear of death, and a feeling of loss of control over one's life. (wikipedia.org)
  • This will lead to the fear associated with bodily injury in castration anxiety, which can then lead to the fear of dying or being killed. (wikipedia.org)
  • Themes central to castration anxiety that feature prominently in circumcision include pain, fear, loss of control (with the child's forced restraint, and in the psychological effects of the event, which may include sensation seeking, and lower emotional stability) and the perception that the event is a form of punishment. (wikipedia.org)
  • Cansever also observed various anxieties, including castration anxiety. (drmomma.org)
  • In modern psychoanalytic theory, castration anxiety is not about losing one's penis. (metafilter.com)
  • Therein lies the castration anxiety. (metafilter.com)
  • The term " symbolic " appears in adjectival form in Lacan's earliest psychoanalytic writings. (nosubject.com)
  • The subject gains access to the symbolic , to a name and a lineage, but does so at the cost of a symbolic castration . (nosubject.com)
  • Any aspect of the psychoanalytic experience which has a linguistic structure thus pertains to the symbolic order . (nosubject.com)
  • In Freudian Ego psychology , psychosexual development is a central element of the psychoanalytic sexual drive theory . (cloudfront.net)
  • Castration here could very well relate to the genital phase of Freudian infantile sexuality with the development of sensory perception that helps the child differentiate between biological sex organs. (hinducollegegazette.com)
  • pop in this sense is not essentially a quantitative term but rather a qualitative one, just as it is not a marker of generic distinction, but rather a productive potential of all music. (ucla.edu)
  • This is to say that whilst Freud's theories may be uncomfortably gendered, the mechanisms being described are, as far as he is concerned, universal. (xenogothic.com)
  • In the same period, entrepreneurs like Kellogg offered parents services such as circumcision and castration as a cure and punishment for a wide variety of perceived misbehaviours (such as masturbation). (wikipedia.org)
  • This view was shared by others in the psychoanalytic community, such as Wilhelm Reich, Hermann Nunberg, and Jaques Lacan, who stated that there is "nothing less castrating than circumcision! (wikipedia.org)
  • In 19th-century Europe, it was not unheard of for parents to threaten their misbehaving sons with castration or otherwise threaten their genitals. (wikipedia.org)
  • The place here refers to the context, specifically the refusal of the psychoanalytic authorities to grant Lacan and his followers affiliation - and by extension the authority to train analysts - an 'excommunication' to which Lacan reacted by forming his own school in the mid-sixties. (lacanonline.com)
  • The term refers to the fear of emasculation in both a literal and metaphorical sense. (wikipedia.org)
  • To support this argument, the psychoanalytic theory approach is used. (bvsalud.org)
  • He developed a psychoanalytic theory to explain human behavior based on his case studies and self-analysis. (psychologic.science)
  • She was formerly an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychoanalytic Studies at University College London, and a member of teaching staff at the Tavistock Clinic. (psychohistory.us)
  • In one sense, part of the power of queer studies, it seems to me, lies in the fact that it can be about pretty much everything, and everything, moreover, can be queered. (inthemedievalmiddle.com)
  • She had read Rank's books on Don Juan, on incest, on the role of the artist and other intellectual themes of our time, psychoanalytic studies all, and they dealt with such figures as the double and the father. (sexualfables.com)
  • In linguistics this is referred to as the 'shifter', a term that denotes the one communicating a message, corresponding in psychoanalytic vocabulary to the ego. (lacanonline.com)
  • The particulars of psychoanalytic semantics aside, the issue here is that objections to the use of the term schizophrenia seem to treat the term in a way that it was originally coined to resist. (xenogothic.com)
  • An object which catches on our erotic or gravitational forces will assert a certain sense of space / time on us, drawing certain things to be regarded as more central and others to be regarded as more marginal. (thingstransform.com)
  • His latest book is The Impossible Revolution: Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy . (yassinhs.com)
  • with a few notable (even named) exceptions, it is primarily in the Purgatorio that we get any sense of community, motion-oriented becoming or mediation. (thingstransform.com)
  • Since I do not share Chomsky's faith in the existence of a universal metalanguage that establishes the sense of all the expressions in all languages, I am not able to cover all the subtleties of meaning that a native German speaker understands regarding the two terms. (journal-psychoanalysis.eu)
  • But in psychoanalytic terms, the female figure poses a deeper problem. (metafilter.com)
  • Of the many forms of expression through which their thought moves, flowing and multiplying without privilege or hierarchy, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari number "pop" among the most powerful (in the Spinozian sense, of that which affords the greatest potential for further connection and ramification). (ucla.edu)
  • The psychoanalytic model which drew inspiration from the figure of Richard III gives us the image of a bitter, angry, vindictive neurotic. (dsq-sds.org)
  • There is a sense that people are safe only if they are either inside their vehicles or engaging in sex outside them. (invisibleculturejournal.com)
  • Hence the psychoanalytic school could venture on the assertion that at bottom no one believes in his own death, or, to put the same thing in another way, that in his unconscious, every one of us is convinced of his own immortality. (podbean.com)
  • I show how this graph articulates Lacan's reading of the Freudian Oedipal-myth, the castration complex, and his structuralist-inspired departure from psychological and traditionally philosophical schemas of the subject. (blogspot.com)
  • W HEN psychoanalytic investigation, which usually contents itself with frail human material, approaches the great personages of humanity, it is not impelled to it by motives which are often attributed to it by laymen. (gutenberg.org)
  • In the first year of Deleuze's consideration of cinema and philosophy, he develops an alternative to the psychoanalytic and semiological approaches to film studies by drawing from Bergson's theses on perception and C.S. Peirce's classification of images and signs. (purdue.edu)
  • The term refers to the fear of emasculation in both a literal and metaphorical sense. (wikipedia.org)
  • The regression caused by the head injury reactivates certain universal fears (as described by consultation-liaison psychiatrists James Strain, M.D. and Stanley Grossman, M.D.) that are similar to those we experience at earlier stages in our development. (dangardnermd.com)
  • In this article, we delve into the realm of tooth falls out dreams, exploring their common themes, psychoanalytic perspectives, and cultural interpretations. (insidemydream.com)
  • From a psychoanalytic perspective, tooth falls out dreams are often associated with themes of sexuality, power, and control. (insidemydream.com)
  • By examining these common themes, psychoanalytic perspectives, and cultural interpretations, we can begin to unravel the deeper meanings behind tooth falls out dreams. (insidemydream.com)
  • Death, its fear and the efforts of human imagination to address the fear is a universal that has been addressed differently by different civilizations at different times of history. (podbean.com)
  • Human universals do exist but they are parsed differently by different civilisations at different points of time, sometimes coinciding and at others deviating significantly from each other. (podbean.com)
  • Death, its fear and the efforts of human imagination to address that fear is one such universal. (podbean.com)
  • These dreams can leave us with a sense of confusion and vulnerability upon waking, pondering their true significance. (insidemydream.com)
  • Dreams where teeth fall out one by one can signify a sense of gradual loss or decay. (insidemydream.com)
  • It is spiritual work in the sense that it has to do with the part of our nature that is timeless, that is beyond the products of our present life, and beyond our thoughts and beliefs and ideas and concepts of our selves and the world. (rishis.nl)
  • This variation often represents a sense of fragility or vulnerability in waking life. (insidemydream.com)
  • Yet the Institute's mission had executed nonetheless: the patient was now reporting in ravenous for life, well-adjusted to castration, a Sexualneurotiker no more! (trickymothernature.com)
  • And I'd love to know in the sense of having a direct, living knowingness of whatever it is. (rishis.nl)
  • Third, and the most arguable of all from a psychoanalytic viewpoint, that love changes through the ages (Zeitaltern), that there is a historicity of love that threatens us with falling into a sociological or culturalist reading and with loosing the specificity of our own discourse. (nestorbraunstein.com)
  • Partiendo de esa concepción de droga presente en la actualidad y del presupuesto de que la subjetividad humana y las patologías son construidas desde articulaciones de las relaciones culturales con la historia individual del sujeto, el presente artículo tiene como objetivo discutir el fenómeno de la toxicomanía en la contemporaneidad a través de viñetas del film Trainspotting. (bvsalud.org)
  • Social learning and individual experiences within specific and universal cultures explain these quite adequately. (subliminalworld.org)
  • Emotional ♦ extend trusting relationships to other adults and to children, attitudes, show a strong sense of self as an individual, recognize and label their own feelings 3. (vbook.pub)