castration complex n a child's fear or delusion of genital injury at the hands of the parent of the same sex as punishment for unconscious guilt over oedipal strivings broadly the often unconscious fear or feeling of bodily injury or loss of power at the hands of authority
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in psychoanalytic theory, unconscious thoughts and motives stemming from fear of loss of genitals as punishment for forbidden sexual desires.Medical dictionary. 2011.