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Utilizing a number of case histories, Blos differentiates the factors which promote the distinctive development of boys and girls in early puberty. At this stage the girl must maintain the repression of pre-genital trends undertaken immediately prior to the Oedipus complex. She fights against a return to pre-oedipal mother fixations by turning to heterosexuality. At this point phallic qualities characterize her heterosexual drive. It is not truly feminine. The pseudo-heterosexuality of delinquent girls is a defence against a regression to the