phallic
/ˈfalɪk
/adjective
1Relating to or resembling a phallus or erect penis: a phallic symbol...
- 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.
- 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.
1.1 Psychoanalysis Of or denoting the genital phase of psychosexual development, especially in males: the phallic phase...
- 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.
- 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.
Derivatives
phallically
- The largest and busiest altar was for Gede, the often phallically depicted lwa of death, cemeteries, and sexual resurrection.
- 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.
Origin
Late 18th century: from French phallique, from Greek phallikos, from phallos (see phallus).