For the adolescent, near teenager boy or girl, they know that and it causes somewhat dirty thoughts to enter their mind. This mindset is what is called oedipal guilt "which is the thoughts and regret the child receives in their mind after those thoughts escape the mind." These facts, though, from him is one with little substance in an argument. It does not recognize the healthy balance in the middle that those thoughts could always occur in their mind when something does not go their way. Obviously, children think of other thoughts when in guilt other than sexual means. Oedipal guilt is not the only way to get past a situation involving a child with their parents. Bettelheim also goes on to mention how at some point in a child's life, they go through a phase where they deserve to be degraded or banned, much like the Cinderella character was with her stepsisters and the rest of her family. Another case in his arsenal is that the vileness of the stepsisters relate to how a child should feel about their angry thoughts. Following the exact path of a fictional, fairy tale character like Cinderella brings their parents into their same little realm as the adolescent boy or girl. An example of dialogue from the piece that maintains this point is when a young girl, five-and-a-half to be exact, says that her mom is treating her like Cinderella "not in the beautiful, princess-like way but the slave-like chores she has to do for her." This means that Bettelheim is suggesting that the child has some sort of superiority over their peers, especially their parents after Cinderella's hard work payed off in her fairytale. Bettelheim then mentions how a child's worthless-like thoughts come from their early developments with parents. Examples from these such as potty training, where they have to be clean and neat. If there are not that, they get punished, which causes some mental trauma to the child, according to Bettelheim.
