The postoedipal negative Oedipus complex derives in the child from the preoedipal wish to undergo anal coitus with the father and receive from him the great gift of feces with which, by conversion into a penis, he can win the world (mother). This anal phase extends from the primeval to the Oedipal situation. The first critical point is in transition from breast to penis or one-with-mother to trinity-with-mother-and-father. Here power is delegated by father but threatened by mother. The second critical point is in the Oedipal phase with the castration threat from father. This is defended against by resort to preoedipal patterns for postoedipal behavior.