Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2010

Abstract

Excerpt: "In psychoanalytic theory, the phallus serves as the supreme symbol of masculine power and, concurrently, of feminine lack. “Phallocentrism” is a term used primarily by feminist theorists to denote the pervasive privileging of the masculine within the current system of signification."

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Originally published in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory, ed. R. Eaglestone. Oxford: Blackwell. 2010.

https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Encyclopedia+of+Literary+and+Cultural+Theory%2C+3+Volume+Set-p-9781405183123

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