phallic stage

This phenomenon appears in both sexes during the phallic stage of development.

The superego develops during the phallic stage as a result of the moral constraints placed on us by our parents.

Then, the young child develops an interest in its genitalia as a site of pleasure known as the phallic stage.

Hence, the phallic stage proved controversial, for being based upon clinical observations of the Oedipus complex.

The latency phase originates during the phallic stage when the child's Oedipus complex begins to dissolve.

In the phallic stage, a boy's decisive psychosexual experience is the Oedipus complex - his son-father competition for possession of mother.

For Freud there is no difference between boys and girls in their sexuality in the oral, anal and phallic stages of development.

Freud identified as the central theme of the phallic stage a state of mind in which "maleness exists, but not femaleness.

This complex occurs during the third stage, known as the phallic stage, of Freud's psychosexual stages of personality development.

If, however, he/she remains fixated, particularly on the phallic stage, his/her development will be troubled as he/she struggles with further repression and defenses.

The polarity of the phallic stage is not male-female, as it is in the later genital stage, at puberty.

In the phallic stage, a girl's Electra complex is her decisive psychodynamic experience in forming a discrete sexual identity (ego).

Freud rejected the idea of the Electra complex and was even monotonously vague about how the phallic stage of psychosexual development is resolved for girls.

It is implied in Freudian psychology that both girls and boys pass through the same developmental stages: oral, anal, and phallic stages.

It is has been theorized that castration anxiety begins between the ages of 3 and 5; otherwise known as the phallic stage of development according to Freud.

Nonetheless, Freud's successors criticise the phallic stage theoretical constructs, because their logic presents women who are vaginally-and clitorally-orgasmic, as psychosexually immature.

As in the phallic stage, the genital stage is centered upon the genitalia, but the sexuality is consensual and adult, rather than solitary and infantile.

In a supplement to the three essays,The Infantile Genital Organization of the Libido (1923), Freud introduced the idea of the phallic stage.

Dénouement - Unresolved son-father competition for the psycho-sexual possession mother might result in a phallic stage fixation conducive to a boy becoming an aggressive, over-ambitious, vain man.

Polymorphous perverse sexuality continues from infancy through about age five, progressing through three distinct developmental stages: the oral stage, anal stage, and phallic stage.

In the Three Essays on the theory of Sexuality (1905) there was almost nothing on the phase which followed the anal, and which became known as the phallic stage.

In the course of her psychosexual development, the complex is the girl's phallic stage; formation of a discrete sexual identity, a boy's analogous experience is the Oedipus complex.