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phallus
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phallus /phal·lus/ (fal´us) pl. phal´li  
1. penis.
2. a representation of the penis.
3. the primordium of the penis or clitoris that develops from the genital tubercle.

phal·lus (fls)
n. pl. phal·lus·es or phal·li (fl)
1. The penis.
2. The sexually undifferentiated tissue in an embryo that becomes the penis or clitoris.
3. The immature penis considered in psychoanalysis as the libidinal object of infantile sexuality in the male.

phallus.
See penis.

phallus [fal´us]
the penis. adj., adj phal´lic.

phallus
the penis.

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The phallic symbolism is anticipated when Oak uses his trocar in the curing of the sheep; after casting a glance at Bathsheba, who stands nearby, he sticks it perpendicularly (Troy's sword mimes this) into one of the ailing sheep.
The phallic symbolism of the goat, which dates back millennia, plus the obvious sense of penetration led the art critic Robert Hughes to call the work "one of the few great icons of male homosexual love in modern culture.
Baker "shifts" Turner's and Geertz's analyses of phallic rituals in other cultures to fit the phallic symbolism and ritual of Ellison's Trueblood scene in Chapter 2 of Invisible Man.
 
 
 
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