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It has been shown on the basis of biological data, direct observation of boys, and psychoanalytic case studies of prepuberty boys that the physiological changes occurring in the testicles and scrotal sac at prepuberty, separate and apart from the phallus, play a significant role in the psychological development of the boy, particularly in the resolution of his castration anxiety and his problems of bisexuality.
We have seen that prepuberty begins well into the period we customarily refer to as latency, comes later in the boy, and extends for a longer period of time than for the girl.