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serpent
serpent term sometimes used to designate the larger species of snakes in mythology and folklore, a name often applied to any sinuous, crawling creature, chiefly to a snake. No sea serpents have been discovered to substantiate the legends about them, although some accounts, such as stories of the ... Read more
Oedipus complex
Oedipus complex Freudian term, drawn from the myth of Oedipus , designating attraction on the part of the child toward the parent of the opposite sex and rivalry and hostility toward the parent of its own. It occurs during the phallic stage of the psycho-sexual development of the personality, appr... Read more
fertility rites
fertility rites magico-religious ceremonies to insure an abundance of food and the birth of children. The rites, expressed through dances, prayers, incantations, and sacred dramas, seek to control the otherwise unpredictable forces of nature. In primitive agricultural societies natural phenomena, s... Read more
Alberto Moravia
Alberto Moravia , 1907-90, Italian novelist born as Alberto Pincherle; husband of Elsa Morante . Moravia is considered one of the foremost 20th-century Italian novelists. He employs taut prose in realist narratives that shed light on such disturbing issues as the relation of the individual to socie... Read more
Shiva
Shiva or Siva , one of the greatest gods of Hinduism , also called Mahadeva. The "horned god" and phallic worship of the Indus valley civilization may have been a prototype of Shiva worship or Shaivism. Shaivism is mentioned as early as the Upanishads and the Mahabharata (500-200 BC). Shi... Read more
snake worship
snake worship The snake has been variously adored as a regenerative power, as a god of evil, as a god of good, as Christ (by the Gnostics), as a phallic deity, as a solar deity, and as a god of death. It has also served as the symbol of Satan and many deities, including Apollo and the Egyptian god ... Read more
psychoanalysis
psychoanalysis name given by Sigmund Freud to a system of interpretation and therapeutic treatment of psychological disorders. Psychoanalysis began after Freud studied (1885-86) with the French neurologist J. M. Charcot in Paris and became convinced that hysteria was caused not by organic sympt... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "phallic"

phallic worship
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition phallic worship , worship of the reproductive powers...symbolized by the male generative organ. Phallic symbols have been found by archaeological...of the human desire for regeneration. Phallic worship in ancient Greece centered around...
phallic symbol
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body phallic symbol ‘The derisive remark...the genitals.’ The most basic phallic symbols in dreams were those resembling...umbrellas, posts, trees. Another kind of phallic symbol was provided by objects that could...
Freud, Sigmund (1856–1939)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society ...behavior, and he named these stages the oral, anal, and phallic (or genital) phases, or stages, of early childhood; these...psychoanalytic theory of the Oedipus complex, that is, the oedipal or phallic phase. He saw the oedipal phase as a developmental milestone...
Psychosexual Stages
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology ...anal to the genital area, initiating what Freud termed the phallic stage. During this period, important changes take place in...the mother, through the development of a superego. As the phallic stage ends, its conflicts are resolved or repressed, and...
Shinto
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body ...period ( c. 3500–2400 bce) and later, include phallic stones ( sekibō ), ranging in height from 2 m to...metaphor for nature's generative forces was the sexual body. Phallic stones, poles, and etchings along roadsides, for example...
penis
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body ...seem to enjoy virtually independent existences and wills. Phallic worship has often centred around disembodied penises. Some...tree’, the branches of which look like penises. Phallic worship generally speaks to issues of fertility (agricultural...
belly button
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body ...phallus (i.e. penetrating shafts or arrows of enkindling light), navel-stones have been interpreted by folklorists as phallic symbols. The Suffi people of New Mexico have assorted complicated migration myths which elucidate their search for the navel...
Freud, Sigmund
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ...universally familiar in a vulgarized form, e.g. the Oedipus complex, the death wish, the family romance, penis envy, phallic symbolism, and the formulation of the divisions between the ‘Id, the Ego and the Superego’. Such phrases...
king
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History ...the resulting soup, chariot‐riding, especially on hilltops associated with the síd (otherworld), phallic stones, and marriages between king and sovereignty goddesses, symbolized by gifts of ale. The texts describing these practices...
Keith Haring
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Club 57 and the Mudd Club. His active involvement with the gay lifestyle was reflected in his art, which often portrayed phallic images or explicit sexual encounters. Inspired by his interest in language and by artist Jenny Holzer, Haring began to experiment...

Dictionary entries related to "phallic"

Phallic Stage
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis PHALLIC STAGE The phallic stage is an infantile organization of libido which follows the oral...antithesis between the sexes is experienced by him or her as one between phallic and castrated. The phallic stage coincides with the culmination and...
Phallic Mother
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis PHALLIC MOTHER The so-called phallic mother is a mother who is fantasmatically endowed with a phallus...arises from the primal fantasies of the mother. The fear of the phallic mother imago tacitly affirms the threat of castration, while...
Phallic Woman
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis PHALLIC WOMAN The term phallic woman refers to the fantasmatic image of a woman (or mother) endowed with a phallus or a phallic attribute. It also refers to the fantasy of the woman (or the mother...
phallic
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...phal·lic / ˈfalik / • adj. of, relating to, or resembling a phallus or erect penis: a phallic symbol. ∎  Psychoanalysis of or denoting the genital phase of psychosexual development, esp. in...
Jouissance
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...jouissance, " which he attributes to the phallic stage and the "imaginary dominance of the phallic attribute" (1977, p. 282). Lacan...posits feminine jouissance against that of the phallic, termed the " jouissance of the Idiot...
Sexuation, Formulas of
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...which Lacan designated in his graph as the phallic function, Φ x. To construct...of x (all men are submitted to the phallic function, that is, castration). But...least one that is not submitted to the phallic function), in order to found the universal...
Pregenital
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...Freud nevertheless clearly assigned the phallic phase of libidinal organization to the pregenital...active and passive. In the next stage, the phallic or infantile genital organization, the phallic/castrated opposition emerged, but this...
Genital Stage
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...the infantile genital organization, or phallic phase, dominated by the phallus, that...infantile genital organization" or "phallic phase" should properly be classed with...This is the reason for the denomination "phallic phase": "At the same time, the main...
Female Sexuality
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...142). Structurally speaking, the phallic phase defined the girl as much as the boy, but the girl's embrace of the phallic — at once real (experienced...p. 252). This injury, at once phallic and narcissistic, was experienced...
Femininity
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...the clitoris being interpreted in the phallic phase as a miniature penis. Then there...while her love is "directed to her phallic mother" (1939a, p. 126). This gives...literature emphasize something beyond the phallic stage in girls. This something is a place...

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The crotch we have to bear. (on the phallic symbol in periodicals)
Magazine article from: Artforum International; 1/1/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...phallus speaks but must never be seen. The phallic order isn't going to take it all off...revelation apparently sullied his supremacy as Phallic Poseur. The wild card in any challenge...unmanageable Madonna. In her role as phallic woman, parading in her vestments of masquerade...
Faking It: U.S. Hegemony in a "Post-Phallic" Era.(Review)
Magazine article from: American Political Science Review; 6/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...Faking It: U.S. Hegemony in a "Post-Phallic" Era. By Cynthia Weber. Minneapolis...dismemberment, which ushered in a "post-phallic" era, U.S. foreign relations in the...compensatory strategies designed to "fake" phallic power. Faking it, however, means that...
Fear of phallic queers.(LEFT HOOK)
Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine); 11/22/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...dogs? Because of heteros' fear of the phallic queer, the homo who can love and fight...males--you don't need a penis to be phallic.) Mind you, there are plenty of feisty...s Calamity Jane had the makings of a phallic queer--until she got domesticated...
Phallic stone found in ancient cave.
News Wire article from: United Press International; 10/4/2000; 700+ words ; ...Archaeologists have found a startling phallic stalagmite that appears to have been the...site dedicated to them is rare." The phallic stone itself -- a little more than two...from about 6,000 years ago, but the phallic cult probably dates from the Hellenistic...
Phallic queerings
Magazine article from: Philosophy Today; 4/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...mediations of the paternal metaphor and phallic signifier. The question then is this: Do the paternal metaphor and phallic signifier save us from the meconaissance...Lacan the symbolic, anchored in the phallic signifier and paternal metaphor, substitutes...
Startling phallic stalagmite, likely focus Of ancient cult activity, is discovered in Nakovana Cave, Croatia. ROM Researcher, Dr. Tim Kaiser, led international team of archaeologists to find the world's first-known Illyrian sanctuary from 2,000 years ago.
News Wire article from: Canadian Corporate News; 10/2/2000; 700+ words ; ...coast), has revealed an astonishing phallic stalagmite surrounded by ritual artifacts...archaeologists found a central, unmistakably phallic stalagmite (a naturally formed mineral...discovered that the large (60 centimeters) phallic stalagmite had been purposely placed at...
Every inch a women; phallic possession, femininity, and the text.(book)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2006; 542 words ; 9780774812092 Every inch a women; phallic possession, femininity, and the text...cigar. Brooks examines the allure of the phallic woman, a textual figure that seems to...of Freud in his characteristic of the phallic mother, and the increasing masculinization...
Thomas Mann's Joseph und seine Bruder and the Phallic Theology of the Old Testament.
Magazine article from: Journal of European Studies; 9/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; By 'phallic theology', George Bridges means a...s final role is that of Hermes, the (phallic) messenger-god who mediates the chthonic...what Mann termed 'Sprachwerk', and the phallic theology which Bridges discerns in the...
Shah's Indian penile prosthesis placement after phallic reconstruction with radial forearm flap.(Case Report)
Magazine article from: Indian Journal of Urology; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...of Indian penile prosthesis after total phallic reconstruction. The differential stiffness...trauma or felonious assault.[sup] [1] Phallic replacement is the treatment of choice...psychiatric therapy the patient opted for phallic reconstruction and underwent a radial...
Psychological Notes: `The penis is itself a phallic symbol!'
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 9/21/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...penis," quipped Jung, "is itself a phallic symbol!" It would seem that nature intended...analyst Eugene Monick has coined the term "phallic resurrection" for the recurrent cycles...again. Hence the widespread existence of phallic worship. It could be crudely sexual...