Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun phallic_phase

1 sense of phallic phase

Sense 1
phallic stage, phallic phase -- ((psychoanalysis) the third stage in a child's development when awareness of and manipulation of the genitals is supposed to be a primary source of pleasure)
       => phase, stage -- (any distinct time period in a sequence of events; "we are in a transitional stage in which many former ideas must be revised or rejected")