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An Experimental Study of Parental Castration Phantasies in Schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Bertram P. Karon
Bertram P. Karon*
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Michigan State University
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A fundamental area, if not the fundamental area, of psychological disturbance, according to classical Freudian psychoanalysis, as is well known, is the fear of being castrated. According to Freud (10; 11, p. 267) this is a fear of being castrated by the father as a reprisal for incestuous desires toward the mother. So closely is the fear of castration related to the father that Braatøy (4) has suggested that it be renamed “father anxiety”. None the less, the concept of the castrating mother also plays a prominent role in psychoanalytic literature. De Monchy (7) Blos (2), Fairbairn (8), Klein (18), and Bergler (1) are among those who have most emphasized the fear of the mother.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 110 , Issue 464 , January 1964 , pp. 67 - 73
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1964 

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