masculine protest, n.Definitions

Masculine protest (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠Adler's term, and it fits men perfectly, Freud granted, but it is castration anxiety under another name.

Masculine protest (n.) was ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠Adler's doctrine that everyone strives from the inferior feminine toward the masculine, and it cannot explain repression, Freud objected.

The Masculine protest (n.) was ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠Adler's theory; it fails, Freud says, because repression does not always take masculinity's side, and often masculinity itself is repressed by the ego.