Interiority and Inner Genital Space in Men

What Else can Be Lost in Castration

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9233283
AutoresGerald I Fogel (2250 N.W. Flanders, Suite 301 Portland, OR 97210, autor correspondente)
Ano1998
Volume67
Fascículo4
Páginas662-697
Data de publicação1998-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Psychoanalytic Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0033-2828 • E-ISSN: 2167-4086
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00332828.1998.12006070
PMID9820896
OpenAlexW2413779181
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas19
Referências citadas8

The author reassesses castration anxiety in men in light of advances in psychoanalytic theory. Castration anxiety arises when any crucial part of mature psychic life is threatened. As in women, oedipal-level and adult male psychic functioning contains powers rooted in the body-mind that are distinct from those we designate as phallic. The author struggles for a comparable word to represent devalued aspects of higher-level development that are primary, "feminine," essential for psychic mastery, and threatened by loss, i.e., by castration. Defining this aspect of mental life is difficult, but it includes receptivity, groundedness, connectedness to self and others, and tolerance of ambiguity. Without access to this interior and more ambiguous continent, a man is castrated, less than whole. Clinical examples are provided

Anxiety · Biology · Castration · Phallic stage · Psychiatry · Psychic · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Threatened species · Medicine · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology