Considering the various ways in which Carlo Lorenzini's work, The Adventures of Pinocchio, has been analyzed, Stone demonstrates how any supplement to or revision of the theory of the oedipus complex only serves to verify that it is a resistance to castration theory. She notes in the story of Pinocchio the fantasy of the phallic mother before sexual differentiation, and how the abandonment by the mother ultimately is abandonment by the phallus.