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Clinical experience gained through psychoanalysis indicates that the autonomous motility of the penis is in itself anxiety provoking. Considerations of the phantoms of amputees, the rarity of a phantom penis, the penis's peculiar sensibility to touch, and its pubertal changes support the conclusion that one root of castration anxiety is that the penis never becomes a securely anchored part of the body ego (or ego body).