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phallocentric, a.|fæləʊˈsɛntrɪk|
[f. Gr. ϕαλλός penis + -centric.]
Centred on the phallus. Hence phallocenˈtricity, phalloˈcentrism.
1927Internat. Jrnl. Psycho-Anal. VIII. 459 There is a healthy suspicion growing that men analysts have been led to adopt an unduly phallo-centric view of the problems in question. 1951Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. XLII. 382 The phallocentric tendencies of early psychology. 1970G. Greer Female Eunuch 48 The enormous hoo-ha about the strange impalpable results of vasectomy..results from..phallocentricity. 1977Spare Rib June 46/4 She capitulates, without too much struggle, to an individual solution of phallocentric romantic love. 1977A. Sheridan tr. Lacan's Écrits vi. 198 The phallocentrism produced by this dialectic is all that need concern us here. 1977R. Holland Self & Social Context viii. 254 Wilden's critique of Lacan, whose valuable exposition of the Imaginary does not allow him to escape its vicissitudes, as can be seen by his phallocentrism and his elitist conceptual violence.
For def. read: Centred on the phallus, esp. as the symbol of male superiority; hence (in Lit. Theory, etc.) dominated by male attitudes or cultural outlook, man-centred. (Further examples.)
1981N. & Q. Oct. 457/1 The Wake is..expounded as a literary process enacting the overthrow of the phallocentric hegemony of meaning. 1983G. Spivak in M. Krupnick Displacement 170 Through his critique of Nietzsche, Derrida is questioning both the phallus-privileging of a certain Freud as well as the traditional view, so blindly phallocentric that it gives itself out as general, that ‘the style is the man’. 1986Year's Work Eng. Stud. 1983 611 She consequently suggests the force of challenging phallocentric discourse with the question: ‘What is man that the itinerary of his desire creates such a text?’
phallocentricity n. (later example), phallocentrism n. (earlier example).
1976G. C. Spivak in J. Derrida Of Grammatology p. lxviii, Lacan's phallocentrism, extending as Derrida sees it, Freud's metaphysical bondage, fits into this pattern. 1984N. & Q. June 287/2 One of the most interesting sections..marries sexual psychology with discourse theory to explain Pound's ‘phallocentricity’ in The Cantos. |