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Latency Period (Noun)

Meaning

(psychoanalysis) the fourth period (from about age 5 or 6 until puberty) during which sexual interests are supposed to be sublimated into other activities.

Classification

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations.

Examples

  • Children often engage in non-competitive, imaginative play during the latency period as their primary method of social interaction and development.
  • The latency period begins when a child redirects their sexual energy into more productive activities like sports or art.
  • According to psychoanalytic theory, the latency period serves as an essential break from the Oedipal desires experienced during an earlier stage of development.
  • Freudian psychoanalysts argue that the latency period typically begins around the age of five and may extend until the onset of puberty.
  • During the latency period, an individual is often more interested in the immediate object of their surroundings rather than objects of opposite-sex affection.

Synonyms

  • Latency Phase
  • Latency Stage

Hypernyms

  • Stage
  • Phase
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