Among his many suggestions, Freud believed that during the phallic stage, young girls distance themselves from their mothers and instead envy their fathers and show this envy by showing love and affection towards their fathers.
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In Freud's psychosexual development theory, the phallic stage ( approximately between the ages of 3.5 and 6 ) is the first period of development in which the libidinal focus is primarily on the genital area.
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Freud's theories regarding psychosexual development, and in particular the " phallic stage ", were criticized and refined by other psychoanalysts, such as Karen Horney, Otto Fenichel, Ernest Jones, Erik Erikson, Jean Piaget, Juliet Mitchell, and Clara Thompson.
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"D�nouement " Unresolved son father competition for the psycho-sexual possession of the mother might result in a phallic stage internalizes Morality; thereby, he chooses to comply with societal rules, rather than reflexively complying in fear of punishment.
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The Oedipus complex, which is one of the most significant components of the phallic stage, can be explained as the need to have the utmost of a response from the parental figure that is the main object of the libido.
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The Oedipus complex occurs in the third phallic stage ( ages 3 6 ) of the five psychosexual development stages : ( i ) the genital in which the source of libidinal pleasure is in a different erogenous zone of the infant's body.
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Furthermore, contemporary research confirms that although personality traits corresponding to the oral stage, the anal stage, the phallic stage, the latent stage, and the genital stage are observable, they remain undetermined as fixed stages of childhood, and as adult personality traits derived from childhood.
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A similar process occurs in boys of the same age as they pass through the phallic stage of development; the key differences being that the focus of sexual impulses need not switch from mother to father, and that the fear of castration ( castration anxiety ) remains.
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She hurled her answers back into the void _ retorts, rants and satiric riffs on everything from the sweetness and light of the " Free to Be You and Me " toys Ms . Love grew up with to the maniacally phallic stage acts of her male rocker peers.
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Even though the age of the narrator is not indicated in the story, because the Oedipus complex occurs in the phallic stage when young males form their sexual identity, the readers can assume or roughly estimate the age of I . After the phallic stage, young males seek for a woman like their mothers while becoming heterosexual and forming their sexual identities.
