title: Depressive affect, anxiety, and psychic conflict in the phallic-oedipal phase.
abstract: The author's recent contributions to affect theory and its relation to psychic conflict are applied to the understanding of the nature, genesis, and consequences of psychic conflict in the phallic-oedipal phase. These contributions lead to a better understanding of 1) the importance of depressive affect in phallic-oedipal conflicts, 2) similarities and differences between such conflicts in boys and girls, 3) depression as a symptom in adult life, and 4) some aspects of narcissism.
mesh_terms: D001007:Anxiety / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology; D001009:Anxiety, Castration / Q000150:complications; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D003863:Depression / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D007323:Instinct; D008297:Male; D009289:Narcissism; D009769:Object Attachment; D009813:Oedipus Complex; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011606:Psychosexual Development