If this is the age of large-scale revolutions in the field of psychoanalysis, then Roiphe and Galenson in their latest joint work have created only a “petite revolution” The phallic-genital phase, according to the authors, occurs much earlier than has heretofore been considered. Heretofore, it has been thought that the onset of castration anxiety and penis envy have always followed an approximate 36-month time clock; not so, say the authors. Their observations indicate a much earlier beginning, a 15- to 19-month