castration complex

/kæˈstreɪʃən ˈkɒmplɛks/
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Translation of castration complex into German

Noun

psychology

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psychological fear of losing genitals or power
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Kastrationskomplex m
  • The patient discussed his castration complex with the therapist.Der Patient sprach mit dem Therapeuten über seinen Kastrationskomplex.
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Synonyms and analogies of castration complex in English

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Examples of castration complex in a sentence

  • The castration complex was evident in his dreams.

Translations of "castration complex" in Context ordered by category and frequency

Noun
derKastrationskomplexnm.

This recognition is really the basis for the castration complex.

Diese Einsicht ist in Wirklichkeit die Grundlage für den Kastrationskomplex.

Certain events, however, are always repressed, first and foremost the primal scene and the castration complex.

Bestimmte Ereignisse jedoch, allen voran die Urszene und der Kastrationskomplex, werden immer verdrängt.

The castration complex goes quite well with the inferiority complex.

Der Kastrationskomplex harmonisiert hervorragend mit dem Minderwertigkeitskomplex.

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castration complex: Examples and translations in context

Besides the love for the man to whom she at first belonged, the woman produces feelings of hate in connection with her defloration, because the injury to her physical integrity re-awakens the castration complex.

Neben der Liebe zu dem Manne, welchem sie zuerst angehört hat, produziert die Frau im Zusammenhang mit der Defloration Haßgefühle, weil die Verletzung ihrer kör- perlichen Integrität den Kastrationskomplex neu belebt.

However, in more long range and meaningful terms, the oedipal complex is a miniature of the True Separation fear, and the castration complex is a way of denying that it ever occurred.

Auf lange Sicht und in bedeutungsvolleren Begriffen, ist der Ödipuskomplex, dennoch, eine Miniatur der Wahren Trennungsangst, und der Kastrationskomplex ist ein Weg zu leugnen, dass sie jemals passierte.

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