Talk:Castration
What boys fear from their fathers, a fear reinforced by the boy's eventual knowledge that women have no penis and are therefore "castrated." Castration anxiety forces the boy to repress his sexual desire for his mother and identify with his father, a formal rival for mother's love, and grow up to smoke a lot of cigars by way of defensive compensation. See Oedipal Complex. Castration fear (boys) and penis envy (girl) together make up the "castration complex." Because women feel less intense castration anxiety (being "castrated" already), they develop less of a superego .
