phallicize

English

Etymology

From phallic +‎ -ize.

Verb

phallicize (third-person singular simple present phallicizes, present participle phallicizing, simple past and past participle phallicized)

1. (transitive) To make phallic.
   • 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:

     De Marsay has been drafted into a sexual theater: he exists only to phallicize an absent woman lover.

   • 1998, Juan-David Nasio, translated by Susan Fairfield, Hysteria from Freud to Lacan, page 49:

     The libido, formerly accumulated in the fantasied phallus, leaves this central source and gradually phallicizes the real body; that is, it spreads throughout this body, with the isolated exception of the so-called genital zone.

Related terms

• phallicization