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Definition of Latency stage
1. Noun. (psychoanalysis) the fourth period (from about age 5 or 6 until puberty) during which sexual interests are supposed to be sublimated into other activities.
Category relationships: Analysis, Depth Psychology, Psychoanalysis
Group relationships: Childhood
Generic synonyms: Phase, Stage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Latency Stage
Literary usage of Latency stage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1903)
"Latency. Stage ii. Suspicion (marked physical signs). b. The Rupture of the Cyst.
Stage iii. Rupture. c. The ruptured Cyst. Stage iv. Quiescence. Stage v. ..."
2. The Theosophist by Theosophical Society (Madras, India) (1898)
"Taking Manas a» the plane of impressions, the potentiality of concepts would
correspond to the latency stage, the concepts in activity to the activity stage ..."
3. A Treatise on the principles and practice of medicine by Arthur Robin Edwards (1907)
"Acute, subacute, chronic Acute, stormy, more rapid th (latency stage),from weeks
ab~ce-s (66 per cent. I to seldom over one ye;ir. one week) though ..."
4. Diseases of the kidney and urinary derangements v. 3, 1885 by William Howship Dickinson (1885)
"Its fro- The disease, which is usually latent until an advanced latency, stage
is reached, not unfrequently remains so until revealed by post-mortem ..."
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