phallic symbol

noun

, Psychoanalysis.

any object, as a cigar or skyscraper, that may broadly resemble or represent the penis, especially such an object that symbolizes power, as an automobile.

phallic symbol

First recorded in 1905–10

There are also shown animal representations before the sacred tree or grove, a phallic symbol.

If one were to think of the three horses as of a phallic symbol the significance of this dream at once becomes apparent.

Signs of phallicism among the ancient Hebrews can be clearly pointed out; the serpent was a phallic symbol.

The famous Black Stone of Mecca, to which religious honours are paid, is also said by authorities to be a phallic symbol.

The beneficent influence of this particular phallic symbol has been well brought out in several classical stories.

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