In the phallic stage, a boy's decisive psychosexual experience is the Oedipus complex, his son-father competition for possession of mother.

Hence, the phallic stage proved controversial, for being based upon clinical observations of the Oedipus complex.

The superego develops during the phallic stage as a result of the moral constraints placed on us by our parents.

For Freud there is no difference between boys and girls in their sexuality in the oral, anal and phallic stages of development.

The latency phase originates during the phallic stage when the child's Oedipus complex begins to dissolve.

This phenomenon appears in both sexes during the phallic stage of development.

Then, the young child develops an interest in its genitalia as a site of pleasure known as the phallic stage.

The third phase, the phallic stage, occurs from 3 years of age to 6 years of age.

For boys, during the "phallic" stage, they are at the height of childhood sexuality.