Kaplan concludes from his study of Snow White that this fairy tale describes the steps in feminine psychosexual development essential to the attainment of sexual maturity. He develops the principal thesis that the libidinal changes of puberty constitute a recapitulation of the sexual experiences of childhood. Thus it is the love of the man superimposed upon the love from father during the Oedipal period which makes genital primacy possible. Several case histories are presented to illustrate variations on this theme.