Word: phallicism
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...publish Holloway's first stuff in Spectra, didn't you?"). There is Tom's cousin George, a would-be painter turned psychoanalyst, and George's wife, whose mind is an ambush out of which Freud continually jumps ("Can't the Cross be a phallic symbol?"). All the "malefactors" are somewhat mystified by one of their hellcat playmates from the old Paris days, who has dropped their cultish enthusiasms, become a Roman Catholic, and is running a kind of cooperative flophouse hostel for Bowery bums. Tom pooh-poohs this project and is much more susceptible...
...choosing, in a tossup between her and a fine horse, the horse. In a priceless homosexual castration fantasy, the father figure of the film shoots off the ear lobes of the young man when he dares to defend himself. The pistol in westerns is by now accepted as a phallic symbol...
...modern India would like to change Shakta customs. The government has sent community development officers into the villages to instruct the Shaktas in modern farming and hygiene and to teach them to read and write. The government men noted that the ancient stone pillars embedded in stone rings -phallic symbols worshiped by the Shaktas-were gathering moss in some villages, and the officials concluded confidently that the old practices were...
...village and was not herself a Shakta. One night Odia told her to put on her wedding costume, a black kanchalia and a billowing scarlet skirt, scarlet headshawl, heavy silver bangles, toe rings and silver nose ring. Odia then placed on her forehead a silver lingam, a highly stylized phallic symbol hung from a silver chain, and led her to a place where, at the behest of a guru (priest), 84 Shaktas and their wives had assembled in a secluded place for the ceremony of kanchalia dharam...
What place have such symbols in modern psychology? Says Jung: they are facts. They appear day after day in the dreams and doodlings of patients. If, for instance, a patient dreams of a snake held skyward, a Freudian analyst will automatically call it a phallic symbol. Jung concedes that it may mean that. But it is also a fact that the serpent has a much broader significance. For instance, to the Ophite Gnostics (2nd century A.D.) the serpent symbolized the redeeming principle of the world. It can stand, says Jung, for the recognition of the shadow side of life...