Latency Period

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

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per-axis with provenance

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Information Class

unclassified

Variants

4 surface forms

synonym: latency stage
plural: Latency Periods
possessive: Latency Period's
pluralpossessive: Latency Periods'

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