My excuses for the various typos that marr my quotations from Freud's articles, copied from "The Standard Edition"( 1969) because I was in a hurry and I don't own a digitalized version in English.

One of these slips looks like an apt neologism, related to "causal oversimplification" ( I typed "oversimplifiction"), most are relatively innocuous, but one deserves a correction: "really important things like ...the discovery that what is essential in dreams is the process of the dream-word" (i.e., "the dream-work").

 

In this opportunity, I take the liberty to introduce slight corrections to my concluding sentence:

"Since a baby's (and mankind's) first trauma cannot ever be represented by adequate words, and it's the basic one, related to the anxiety of being forced into an independent life (the trauma of birth), this affect will leave an imprint of something "ineffable" and terrible onto every successive trauma. Freud chose to represent this situation (related to this nameless imprint) by having the "phallus" stand as a symbol for that which lies as the basis of all other catastrophic losses that an individual must endure." 

btw: like sticks, poles, umbrellas, cigars...the penis is simply one among many other "phallic symbols."