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Monastic incarceration is castration. -- Victor Hugo
You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Without poetry, religion becomes obscure, false, and malignant; without philosophy, licentious in all wantonness, and lascivious to the point of self-castration. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and artistic castration. -- Mario Vargas Llosa
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. -- Anna Quindlen
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. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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. -- J.R. Ward
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. -- Christian Metz
The castration of women has been carried out in terms of a masculine-feminine polarity, in which men have commandeered all the energy and streamlined it into an aggressive conquistadorial power, reducing all heterosexual contact to a sadomasochistic pattern. -- Germaine Greer
For the lost are lost by nature, all your ideas of moral regeneration will make no difference, there is AN INNATE DETERMINISM, there is an undeniable incurability in suicide, crime, idiocy, madness, there is an invincible cuckoldry in man, there is a congenital weakness of the character, a castration of the mind. -- Antonin Artaud
Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held sacred as a form of power and an access to reality. Prefer what is positive and multiple, difference over uniformity, flows over unities, mobile arrangements over systems. Believe that what is productive is not sedentary but nomadic. -- Michel Foucault
The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be castrated,' the eunuchlike sound of the jazz band both mocks and proclaims, 'and you will be rewarded, accepted into a fraternity which shares the mystery of impotence with you, a mystery revealed at the moment of the initiation rite. -- Theodor Adorno
Anyway, to cut off one's biological dreams seems to me the most fundamental form of psychic castration that you could imagine. -- Quentin S. Crisp
...instead of the smoldering, soul-baring, Abelard-to-Heloise-sans-castration solicitations you rightfully deserve, you're getting stupefying lines like: "I'm listening to NPR. Do you want to come over and make out?" -- Maria Dahvana Headley

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