phallicize
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phallicize (third-person singular simple present phallicizes, present participle phallicizing, simple past and past participle phallicized)
- (transitive) To make phallic.
- 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
- De Marsay has been drafted into a sexual theater: he exists only to phallicize an absent woman lover.
- 1998, Juan-David Nasio, translated by Susan Fairfield, Hysteria from Freud to Lacan, page 49:
- 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.