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单词 phallic
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Definition of phallic in English:

phallic

adjective ˈfalɪkˈfælɪk
  • 1Relating to or resembling a phallus or erect penis.

    (与)阴茎(有关)的;像阴茎的;(与)勃起阴茎(有关)的;像勃起阴茎的

    a phallic symbol

    阴茎象征。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Shiva is also the god of fertility and is mostly worshipped in the phallic symbol called Linga.
    • Weapons carried by the gang are shaped into huge phallic symbols, demonstrating a sense of vigorous male power or animal instinct, manifested in behaviour like the marking of territory.
    • If the sports car is considered some sort of phallic substitute or symbol, then the quad bike is equally emblematic.
    • The last piece is Louise Bourgeois' Fillette, a phallic object combining male and female elements.
    • Equally, the power of corporate towers is manifest in up-looking, phallic worship, and in the motherly (that is, custodial) surveillance of the world below.
    1. 1.1Psychoanalysis Of or denoting the genital phase of psychosexual development, especially in males.
      〔心理分析〕(尤指男性)生殖器期的,性器期的;阴茎期的
      the phallic phase
      Example sentencesExamples
      • When looking at the body of psychoanalytic literature dealing with perversions it becomes evident that today there is clearly fading support of the theory of phallic primacy.
      • Much of the tragedy of the story can be traced to the unhappy childhood of Luke and Leia; with their mother dead, Luke has no focus for his sexual desires during the phallic stage of his development.
      • We talk about sexual openness and sexual ambiguity, yet the current psychological ideal of phallic masculinity is as rigid and coercive as it ever was.
      • Freudian theory would suggest that the corporate cultures of these organizations often institutionalize various combinations of oral, phallic and genital sexuality.
      • If depression is warded off in phallic omnipotence and evacuated into the feminine part of the personality, we can formulate a psychoanalytic interpretation of Kreon's behaviour.

Derivatives

  • phallically

  • adverb
    • The largest and busiest altar was for Gede, the often phallically depicted lwa of death, cemeteries, and sexual resurrection.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • By displaying musical workers and their tools (usually phallically invested guitars), these magazines designate craftsmanship and professionalism as vectors of male empowerment.
      • Its frontage gleams with neon, and above the gaudy porch is a statue of a four-horsed laurel-wreathed charioteer, his spear raised phallically into the dull London sky.
      • Crowley was phallically centered and saw the wand as the basic tool of magic.

Origin

Late 18th century: from French phallique, from Greek phallikos, from phallos (see phallus).

Rhymes

Alec, cephalic, encephalic, Gallic, intervallic, italic, medallic, mesocephalic, metallic, Salic, tantalic, Uralic, Vandalic

Definition of phallic in US English:

phallic

adjectiveˈfælɪkˈfalik
  • 1Relating to or resembling a phallus or erect penis.

    (与)阴茎(有关)的;像阴茎的;(与)勃起阴茎(有关)的;像勃起阴茎的

    a phallic symbol

    阴茎象征。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Weapons carried by the gang are shaped into huge phallic symbols, demonstrating a sense of vigorous male power or animal instinct, manifested in behaviour like the marking of territory.
    • The last piece is Louise Bourgeois' Fillette, a phallic object combining male and female elements.
    • Shiva is also the god of fertility and is mostly worshipped in the phallic symbol called Linga.
    • If the sports car is considered some sort of phallic substitute or symbol, then the quad bike is equally emblematic.
    • Equally, the power of corporate towers is manifest in up-looking, phallic worship, and in the motherly (that is, custodial) surveillance of the world below.
    1. 1.1Psychoanalysis Of or denoting the genital phase of psychosexual development, especially in males.
      〔心理分析〕(尤指男性)生殖器期的,性器期的;阴茎期的
      Example sentencesExamples
      • If depression is warded off in phallic omnipotence and evacuated into the feminine part of the personality, we can formulate a psychoanalytic interpretation of Kreon's behaviour.
      • Freudian theory would suggest that the corporate cultures of these organizations often institutionalize various combinations of oral, phallic and genital sexuality.
      • Much of the tragedy of the story can be traced to the unhappy childhood of Luke and Leia; with their mother dead, Luke has no focus for his sexual desires during the phallic stage of his development.
      • When looking at the body of psychoanalytic literature dealing with perversions it becomes evident that today there is clearly fading support of the theory of phallic primacy.
      • We talk about sexual openness and sexual ambiguity, yet the current psychological ideal of phallic masculinity is as rigid and coercive as it ever was.

Origin

Late 18th century: from French phallique, from Greek phallikos, from phallos (see phallus).

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