what is latency stage?
Answers
Explanation:
In his model of the child's psychosexual development, Sigmund Freud describes five stages. Freud believed that the child discharges his/her libido through a distinct body area that characterizes each stage. The stages are: the 'oral phase' the 'anal phase' the 'phallic phase' the 'latency phase' the 'genital phase'.
Answer:
the stage of psychosexual development in which overt sexual interest is sublimated and the child's attention is focused on skills and peer activities with members of his or her own sex.
Explanation:
It is the fourth stage of Sigmund Freud's model of a child's psychosexual development. Freud believed that the child discharges their libido through a distinct body area that characterizes each stage.
The period of reduced sexuality that Freud believed occured between approximately age seven and adolescence. Freud claimed that children went through a "latency period" during which "we can observe a halt and retrogression in sexual development". During this time, the child also begins the process of what Freud terms "infantile amnesia": the repression and estrangement of those earliest childhood memories that we find traumatic, evil and/or overly sexual. Freud warns, however, that "The latency period may... be absent: it need not bring with it any interruption of sexual activity and sexual interests"