castration complex
Syllabification: (cas·tra·tion com·plex)
Definition of castration complex
noun
Psychoanalysis- (in Freudian theory) an unconscious anxiety arising during psychosexual development, represented in males as a fear that the penis will be removed by the father in response to sexual interest in the mother, and in females as a compulsion to demonstrate that they have an adequate symbolic equivalent to the penis, whose absence is blamed on the mother.