Five-year-old Samuel often tells his older sister: "I can't wait to grow up,so I can marry mommy." Which Freudian stage is Samuel most likely in

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

According to Freud's psychosexual development theory, children between the ages of 3 and 6 are in the phallic stage, characterized by the focus of pleasure on the genitalia. The Oedipus and Electra complexes also arise during this stage, where children develop attraction towards the opposite-sex parent and a sense of competition with the same-sex parent. Samuel's desire to marry his mother suggests that he is experiencing the Oedipus complex.