Castration Quotes
Castration Quote of the day
The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and artistic castration.
The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration.
You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration.
But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on.
I would say that the off-frame effect in photography results from a singular and definitive cutting-off which figures castration and is figured by the click of the shutter.
When Vishous pushed open the door to the exam room, he got a gander at the kind of seating arrangement that made him think fondly of castration.
Without poetry, religion becomes obscure, false, and malignant; without philosophy, licentious in all wantonness, and lascivious to the point of self-castration.
Anyway, to cut off one's biological dreams seems to me the most fundamental form of psychic castration that you could imagine.
I flinch. Maybe you have to be male to understanding that castration can't be reduced to finger-scissors and some onomatopoeia.
