Castration

It is without doubt that the theoretical framework of Lacanian psychoanalysis drawing upon such concepts as Oedipus complex, Castration complex and Phallus has brought about the issue of femininity and patriarchal power relations between the figure of the Father and the Mother. Throughout this essay, I intend to follow Sarup’s guide to “Lacan and Psychoanalysis” (1993) and dwell upon the matter of gender identity and sexual personality by taking into account the Lacanian understanding of…

life in order to repair his reputation by considering who is to blame for each major event. Specifically, Abelard largely wanted the reader to understand the “true story” of two major “episodes” in his life that had brought him great shame: his castration and the burning of his book (9). In regards to these calamities, it seems clear that Abelard had already justified them to himself in his conscience (37,42,43), so his decision to write these thoughts in the form of a letter was likely driven…

Freud’s theory centers on castration anxiety – one’s fear that, as his mother somehow has lost her penis, “his own possession of a penis [is] in danger” – and fetishization – the displacement of one’s fear of castration onto some token serving as psychical protection against the primordial of castration (Freud “Fetishism” 842-843). It can be difficult to determine if Freud is discussing an actual penis that, in fact…

Municipal Gum was written by Kath Walker in 1960. Municipal Gum is about the changes in society and the tendency of people to want to control everything. Kath Walker uses various techniques to convey this idea. At the beginning of the poem Kath Walker is addressing the tree. This immediately creates empathy for both the tree and her people. By the last line she has emphasised this with the pronoun “us” to show that they suffer a similar fate. Juxtaposition and personification are used in the…

Prostate cancer analysis yields interesting insight into existence of two distinct processes as potential therapeutic targets. Researchers have used clinical data from prostate cancer patients to identify two new gene mutations. Previously considered redundant, these mutations have been introduced in mice to map their distinct effects on the development and progress of prostate cancer. Cancer is the second most prominent cause of human mortality after cardiovascular diseases. In a bid to…

Oedipus — Despite mother being the parent who primarily gratifies the child’s desires, the child begins forming a discrete sexual identity — “boy”, “girl” — that alters the dynamics of the parent and child relationship; the parents become the focus of infantile libidinal energy. The boy focuses his libido (sexual desire) upon his mother, and focuses jealousy and emotional rivalry against his father — because it is he who sleeps with the mother. To facilitate uniting him with the mother, the…

Gaia's children back inside of her until she could bear it no more, and came up with a plan to prevent Ouranos from impregnating her again. So before Ouranos came to lay with her, she hide Kronos and gave him a sickle, and in lines 179-183 in "The Castration of Ouranos," he jumps out, cuts off Ouranos' genitals, and throws them behind him. In lines 184-187, giants, ash-tree nymphs, and the Furies are born from the blood that lands on the earth. And in lines 188-198 of "The Birth of Aphrodite,"…

of power. While Nurse Ratched isn’t allowed to physically castrate her patients, she can chop “away the brain. Frontal-lobe castration” (Kesey 159). McMurphy believes if Nurse Ratched “can't cut below the belt she'll do it above the eyes” (Kesey 159). This reflects the main argument that One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest is pervaded with the meaning of masculinity. Castration takes away the essence of their being so with Nurse Ratched cutting parts of the brain away, the patients are left helpless…

are things which satisfy this condition, but do not create the feeling of the uncanniness. Thus, he puts forward other psychoanalytical notions that will help distinguish “the uncanny”. First, he connects the figure of the Sandman to the fear of castration, which in this story manifests as the fear of losing one’s…

may occur due to the diet and food intake of the individual as well. Regarding the treatment, paedophilia has been proven to be treatable with the help of medicine, surgery, and therapy. Some example of the treatments include chemical castration, surgical castration, and…