Analyses of children and adults reveal the obstacles encountered in the development of the external orientation of men and inward orientation of women. Both sexes fear the destruction of their insides, but this more archaic form of the castration complex is typical for women.

There seem to be two "inner genital" stages in which anxiety-provoking inner genital sensations give rise to a reorganization of pregenital, inner genital, and outer genital component drives. The first "inner genital" stage ends with the subordination of all component drives to phallic dominance. The second "inner genital"