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is fearing to have the element of power. This fear is universal and rooted in what freud calls a basic 'rejection of femininity'.

Freud came to see the castration complex as a universal phenomenon, one which is rooted in a basic 'rejection of femininity' (Ablehnung der Weiblichkeit). It is encountered in every subject, and represents the ultimate limit beyond which psychoanalytic treatment cannot go (Freud, 1937c). (Evans 1999 : 22)

is simply another word for impotence: It is up to each person to invent a particular solution that builds upon his symptom.

Psychoanalysis has above all discovered any subject's impotence to achieve full sexual satisfaction. This impotence is designated by the term 'castration.' Further, psychoanalysis, with Lacan, has formulated that it is impossible for there to be any norm in the relation between the sexes. If there is no satisfaction and if there is no norm, it is up to each person to invent a particular solution, one that builds on his symptom. (laurent : 2004)

is the refusal of jouissance so that the subject can enter into the symbolic and jouissance can be reached again on the inverted ladder of the law of desire.

The subject's entry into the symbolic is conditional upon a certain initial renunciation of jouissance in the castration complex, when the subject gives up his attempts to be the imaginary phallus for the mother... 'Castration means that jouissance must be refused so that it can be reached on the inverted ladder (l'echelle renversee) of the Law of desire' (E, 324). (Evans 94)

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