vagina dentatas
vagina dentatas is the plural of vagina dentata.
Meaning of vagina dentata
Noun
vagina dentata (plural vaginae dentatae or vagina dentatas or vagina dentata)
- The mythical toothed vagina; often related to castration anxiety.
- This notion also associates the vampire more directly with the primal uncanny. The long quotation that Moretti uses from Marie Bonaparte's writings on Edgar Allen^([sic]) Poe includes reference to the mythical vagina dentata, the ‘strange’ notion that the vagina ‘is furnished with teeth, and thus a...2005, Barbara Creed, Phallic Panic: Film, Horror and the Primal Uncanny, Melbourne Univ. Publishing, →ISBN, page 86
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- Vagina dentatas is the plural of vagina dentata.
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