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As the contributions to this issue demonstrate, with the evolving understanding of sex and gender identification, together with modifications in clinical models in contemporary psychoanalysis, the clinical concept of castration anxiety remains relevant and useful. Cases presented in this issue showed how employing the concept of castration anxiety was central to understanding the patients’ struggles.
The contributions also indicate future directions for continuing to evolve the psychoanalytic understanding of the interplay of sex, sexuality, and gender with castration, separation, and death anxiety.