Castration

castrate



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–verb (used with object) 

1. to remove the testes (睪丸, testis 的複數) of; emasculate (去勢) ; geld. (閹割)

2. to remove the ovaries (卵巢) of. 

3. Psychology. to render impotent, literally or metaphorically, by psychological means, esp. by threatening a person's masculinity or femininity. 

4. to deprive of strength, power, or efficiency; weaken: [Without] those ten new submarines, our [navy] will be castrated.  



–noun 

5. a castrated person or animal. 





　

This is an extremely violent, gory, and surreal [meditation] on the life of a young lad during the time of the Spanish Civil War, as he attempts to find out what happened to his father, who has disappeared. 



It turns out that his mother, devout in her loyalty to the Falange, has turned him in as a leftist. 

Multiple scenes involve [castration] 

and the [consumption] of [testicles], in one case by a victimized priest. 



The grotesquery includes a fantasy scene of a city swamped in the boy's urine, the mother having a bowel movement over the head of his father, and a deeply Oedipal scene with the boy, a bull and his mother. Not for the faint of heart, 



Oedipal

[ed-uh-puhl, ee-duh-]



this film [achieved] cult status in New York City shortly after its release.



testosterone priapic stamina virility

androgen

androgyny hermaphrodite aphrodite

mollycoddle 

Nubile