The [[boy]] fears that his own [[penis]] will be cut off by the [[father]] ([[castration]] [[anxiety]]), while the [[girl]] sees herself as already castrated (by the [[mother]]) and attempts to deny this or to compensate for it by seeking a [[child]] as a substitute for the [[penis]] ([[penis envy]]).
===Phallic Phase===
The [[castration complex]] affects both sexes because its appearance is closely linked with the [[phallic phase]], a moment of psychosexual [[development]] when the child, whether boy or girl, knows only one genital organ - the male one.
The [[castration complex]]
The [[phallic phase]] is a moment of [[development|psychosexual development]] when the [[child]] -- whether [[boy]] or [[girl]] -- knows only one [[genital]] [[body|organ]] - the [[male]] one.
The [[phallic phase]] is also known as the infantile genital organization.
(because it -- the [[phallic phase]] -- is the first moment when)
The [[partial]] [[drive]]s are unified under the primacy of the [genital]] [[body|organ]]s.
It thus anticipates the genital organisation proper which arises at puberty, when the subject is aware of both the male and the female sexual organs.<ref>{{F}} "The Infantile Genital Organization." 1923. SE XIX. p.141</ref>
===Oedipus Complex===
