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The main theme of this paper is a consideration of some fundamental findings with regard to the oedipus complex and phallicism. By these terms is meant the oedipal sexual wish, the urgent need for defence against it and its attendant problems, and the phallic notion of only one kind of genital – the phallus existing. The object of investigation is the potential use of phallicism as a defensive organization against the problems of the oedipal phase.