Castration Anxiety and Penis Envy

Castration Anxiety
Castration anxiety is the fear of emasculation in both the literal and metaphorical sense.

Literal
Castration anxiety is the conscious of unconscious fear of losing all or part of the sex organs, or the function of such.
In Freudian psychoanalysis, castration anxiety refers to an unconscious fear of penile loss originating during the phallic stage of sexual development and lasting a lifetime. According to Freud, when the infantile male becomes aware of differences between male and female genitalia he assumes that the female's penis has been removed and becomes anxious that his penis will be cut off by his rival, the father figure, as punishment for desiring the mother figure.

Metaphorical
Symbolic castration anxiety refers to the fear of being degraded, dominated or made insignificant, usually an irrational fear where the person will go to extreme lengths to save their pride and/or perceives trivial things as being degrading making their anxiety restrictive and sometimes damaging. this can also tie in with literal castration anxiety in fearing the loss of virility or sexual dominance.

Penis Envy
Penis envy in Freudian psychoanalysis refers to the theorised reaction of a girl during her psychosexual development to the realization that she does not have a penis. Freud considered this realisation a defining moment in the development of gender and sexual identity for women. In contemporary culture, the term sometimes refers inexactly or metaphorically to women who are presumed to wish they were men.

The theory suggests that the penis becomes the organ of principal interest to both sexes in the phallic stage. This becomes the catalyst for a series of pivotal events in psychosexual development. These events, known as the Oedipus complex for boys, and the Electra complex for girls, result in significantly different outcomes for each gender because of differences in anatomy.