Psychodynamic theory of early gender development

Throughout the history, there were several theories of early gender development recognized. The most known Freud’s theory of psychosexual stages argues that early stages of development are the most important ones for personality formation. Freud described children as sexual beings and explained many of their actions as sexually oriented.
In the families where parenting is divided equally between a mother and a father, I suggest the first stage to be called “stage of undifference” that lasts from birth to approximately two years of age. In this stage child is egocentric, convinced that the universe revolves around him, or at least that’s how he feels. A child does not distinguish himself from other people and tends to attribute his behavior to everybody else. I believe that a child in this stage does not care who is the mother and who is the father, he treats them as two “big” human beings that are always around him, since a child in this stage usually sees his parents...