vagina dentataとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

vagina dentata (複数形 vaginae dentatae または vagina dentatas または vagina dentata)

1. The mythical toothed vagina; often related to castration anxiety.
   • 2005, Barbara Creed, Phallic Panic: Film, Horror and the Primal Uncanny, Melbourne Univ. Publishing (→ISBN), page 86:

     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 source of danger in being able to bite and castrate’.

   • 2006, The Pervert's Guide to Cinema:

     (Slavoj Žižek): My relationship towards tulips is inherently Lynchian. I think they are disgusting. Just imagine. Aren't these some kind of, how do you call it, vagina dentata, dental vaginas threatening to swallow you?