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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

see latency 3

1. Psychoanal. the stage of personality development, extending from about four or five years of age to the beginning of puberty, during which sexual urges appear to lie dormant.

2. Pathol. See latent period (def. 1).

[1905-10]

latency period,

Psychoanalysis. a period between early childhood and puberty when heterosexual drives are apparently inactive or sublimated.