During the fourth and fifth years of life, the libido is centered in the genital region. Children at this age are frequently observed examining their genital masturbating, and asking questions about birth and sex. According to Freud, the conflict in the phallic stage is the last and most crucial conflict with which the young child must cope. The conflict involves the child's unconscious wish to possess the opposite-sexed parent and at the same time to do away with the same-sexed parent. Freud called this situation the oedipus complex (pronounced ED-ipus). The name is derived from the Greek myth in which the Oedipus, kills his father and marries his mother. Freud, incidently, was well read in classical mythology (Glenn, 1987), and the oedipus myth seems to have been particularly salient for him (Rudnytsky, 1987)