Stewie has developed strong feelings for his mother and views his father as a rival for her attention. However, he is afraid that his father will find out and interfere with these plans. Stewie is clearly immersed in the __________ stage

A) anal
B) genital
C) oral
D) phallic


Answer: D
Rationale: Freud believed that children in the phallic stage become sexually attracted to the opposite-sexed parent. The male child develops a sense of competition with his father, and then begins to fear that his father will castrate him in the course of competing for the affection of the mother. This is known as the Oedipal complex).

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