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==Jacques LacanSigmund Freud==

In the [[stage]]s of [[psychosexual development]] listed by [[Freud]], the [[genital]] [[|genital stage]]is the last [[stage]] in the series, coming after the two [[genital|pregenital stages ]] (the [[development|oral]] [[stage]] and the [[development|anal]] [[stage]]).

The [[genital]] [[|genital stage]] first arises between the ages of three and five (the [[development|infantile genital organization]] or [[development|phallic]] [[phase]]) and is then interrupted by the [[latency period]], before returning at puberty (the [[genital]] [[|genital stage]] proper).

[[Freud]] defined this [[stage]] as the final "complete organization" of the [[libido]], a synthesis of the previously anarchic "[[perversion|polymorphous perversity]]" of the [[genital|pregenital stagesstage]]s.<ref>{{F}} "[[Works of Sigmund Freud|Splitting of the Ego in the Process of Defence]]" 1940a [1938]. [[SE]] XXIII. p. 155</ref>

Because of this, the concept of "[[genital|genitality]]" came to represent a privileged value in [[psychoanalytic theory]] after [[Freud]], coming to represent a [[stage]] of full [[development|psychosexual maturity]].

The stages of [[development|psychosexual development]] are conceived by [[Lacan]] not as [[nature|natural phases ]] of [[biology|biological maturation]] but as forms of [[demand]] which are [[structure]]d [[punctuation|retroactively]].<ref>{{S8}} p. 238-46</ref>

However, [[Lacan]]'s discussion of this [[development|stage ]] focuses on what [[Freud]] referred to as the "[[genital|infantile genital organization]]" (also known as the [[phallic phase]]); a [[development|stage ]] when the [[child]] knows only one sexual organ (the male one) and passes through the [[castration complex]].