The Castration complex (n.) can leave a boy, during latency, a model child — no disturbance visible, all success at school.
Castration complex (n.) is nearly universal in boys; why one answers it with a fetish while most simply get over it, Freud frankly cannot say.
The Castration complex (n.) gives the threat to other organs its intense, obscure colouring, Freud argues against rationalist readings of eye-fear.
The Castration complex (n.) has deeper roots in weaning, loss of faeces and birth itself, yet Freud confines the term to fears bound up with loss of the penis.
The Ego-complex (n.) is not the only complex in the psyche; the psyche is a constellation with other luminaries, and unconscious complexes may have a kind of consciousness of their own, as secondary personalities show.
The Ego-complex (n.) is the highest psychic authority in a normal person, the mass of ideas about oneself carried by the constant feeling-tone of one's own body; it is the firmest complex and weathers all psychological storms.
The Electra complex (n.) is a haven of refuge, entered late and left late and incompletely — by Freud's account the opposite of the boy's, which castration fear shatters.
The Electra complex (n.) is Jung's name for a daughter's specific liking for her father with a jealous attitude toward her mother, the feminine counterpart of the Oedipus complex.
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The Father complex (n.) is never wholly overcome; religion relieves the psyche by settling its conflicts with a universally accepted solution.
The Father complex (n.) is one and the same motive as the need for protection against human weakness — the longing for a father.
The Father complex (n.) survives the discovery of natural law: the forces of nature lose their human traits, but helplessness remains, and with it the gods.
The Father complex (n.) binds a man fatefully to his only friend, the father — psychic endogamy that is paid for by falling out with every later friend.