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De Monchy calls attention to analytic writings describing pregenital energy sources for the castration complex. Freud, in contrast, stated in Analysis Terminable and Interminable that when castration anxiety has been analyzed, 'bedrock' has been reached. De Monchy feels that Freud's remark draws attention away from highly important pregenital determinants. He attributes Freud's idea to the biological concept of primary and fixed instinct-response patterns which are independent of earlier (learning) experience, known to animal psychologists