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According to Freud, hate and jealousy are part of the natural evolution of the child who is confronted with separation anxiety and the fear of losing his or her unique position with the parents when another child is born. However, this anxiety, caused by feared events, awakens in the child a drive to know where he or she comes from and intense thinking activity marked by the elaboration of false infantile sexual theories. Simultaneously, this step is the necessary condition for structuring the child’s body image and psychical apparatus. To exit the infantile stage and the Oedipus complex is to exit the stage of non-separation and of separation denial and to be able to imagine taking a place among others.