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phallicize en · VERB

Etymology

From phallic + -ize.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To make phallic.
   • De Marsay has been drafted into a sexual theater: he exists only to phallicize an absent woman lover. 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
   • The libido, formerly accumulated in the fantasied phallus, leaves this central source and gradually phallicizes the real body; that is, it spreads throughout this body, with the isolated exception of the so-called genital zone. 1998, Juan-David Nasio, translated by Susan Fairfield, Hysteria from Freud to Lacan, page 49:

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phallicization