Third stage occurring from about 3-6 of age in which the child discovers sexual feelings. In the psychosexual development stages, girls and boys go through the same development throughout the psychosexual stages except for the phallic stage. This is the stage where the child is affection onto the parent of the opposite sex and with rivalry onto the parent of the same sex. The objects of affection and aggression are only symbolic and in no way realizable as wished for. Finally, out of frustration, the child will walk away to pursue more mature object relationships. As mentioned earlier boys will undergo the Oedipus complex while girls will undergo the Electra complex. Freud suggested that this is the reason why little boys became involved in
