Psychoanalytic theory of effects of child's fantasy of castration.
The castration complex is a concept developed by Sigmund Freud, first presented in 1908,[1] initially as part of his theorisation of the transition in early childhood development from the polymorphous perversity of infantile sexuality to the ‘infantile genital organisation’ which forms the basis for adult sexuality. The trauma induced by the child’s discovery of anatomical difference between the sexes (presence or absence of the penis) gives rise to the fantasy of female emasculation or castration.[2]
^"On the Sexual Theories of Children" 1908. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud Vol IX
^Norman Brown Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytic Meaning of History, London: Sphere Books 1968, p. 118
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