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Castration

noun

Neutering a male animal by removing the testicles. Synonym: emasculation.

Surgical removal of the testes or ovaries (usually to inhibit hormone secretion in cases of breast cancer in women or prostate cancer in men).

The deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work. Synonym: expurgation.

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"Castration" Quotes from Famous Books

... night in which the dreamer identifies herself with her brother. She was a "tomboy," and was always being told that she should have been born a boy. This identification with the brother shows with special clearness that "the little one" signifies the genital. The mother threatened him (her) with castration, which could only be understood as a punishment for playing with the parts, and the identification, therefore, shows that she herself had masturbated as a child, though this fact she now retained only in memory concerning her brother. ...

— Dream Psychology - Psychoanalysis for Beginners • Sigmund Freud

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