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Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 1946, Vol. XV, No. 4, p. 503.
Róheim quotes Kardiner as having said that if children are not prevented from indulging in sexual play with each other, they will have no Oedipus complex. The author then proceeds to describe the life of the Baeja in the Central Provinces of India. These children are indulged and they rarely suffer from sexual frustrations. Myths and folklore are presented as evidence of the presence of the Oedipus complex and dreams to demonstrate castration anxiety.