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An Experimental Study of Parental Castration Phantasies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Bertram P. Karon
Bertram P. Karon*
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Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan 48823, U.S.A.
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A fundamental anxiety, if not the fundamental anxiety, in males, according to classical Freudian psychoanalysis, is the fear of castration. According to Freud (1953, pp. 120–121; 1933a, p. 267) this is the fear of being castrated by the father as a reprisal for incestuous desires toward the mother. Nonetheless, the concept of the castrating mother also plays a prominent role in psychoanalytic literature, e.g. De Monchy (1952), Blos (1950), Fairbairn (1952), Klein (1948), and Bergler (1949).

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 117 , Issue 536 , July 1970 , pp. 69 - 73
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1970 

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