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IN the foregoing chapter we have considered the content and effects of the early anxiety-situations of the individual. We shall now go on to examine in what way his libido and his relations to real objects bring about a modification of those anxiety-situations.
As a result of the oral frustration the child undergoes it seeks new sources of gratification.1 The little girl turns away from her mother and takes her father's penis as an object of gratification. At first this gratification is of an oral nature, but there are genital tendencies at work already.2 The small boy also evolves a positive attitude toward his father's penis out of his oral-sucking position, in virtue of the assimilation of the breast to a penis.3 An oral-sucking fixation to the father's penis is, I have found, a primal factor in the establishment of true homosexuality.4 But