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Today we will talk about Latency Period, which happens from 6 to 11 years old approximately, and is a time of Psychic Maturity, and is no longer considered a phase, but a Period, because here there is a significant stop in the development of sexuality.
At this stage, the child initiates homosexual love, which is his first love, when he plays with his peers, of the same sex, they catch each other, touch each other in games and make a disgusted face when talking about the opposite sex.
It was the time of Clube do Bolinha and Luluzinha, when they recognized each other so that they could later choose the opposite sex to discover their second love.
This is a natural process.
First they need to separate as different sexual figures and then later attract each other.
Homosexual love is the love that will allow him to identify himself, allowing him to get closer to the figure he wants to be, in this case the father, or the mother, or a figure good enough to transfer his love and, later, choose the same object that the father or mother also chose. It is a transference phenomenon. The father is a man who chose a woman. The mother is a woman who chose a man to marry. And so happens the choice of object.
If the child does not have this mirror at this stage, that is, the correct figure so that he can make this identification, he will start with the second stage, his interest will be reversed and, probably, he will live this first homosexual love for the rest of his life.
If everything went well with this child up to this stage, the limbic system stops working, the amygdalas accelerate their work, fear grows, and this causes their entanglement with their parents to grow as well.
It is a time of normal manias, tics and obsessive-compulsive behaviors that will pass naturally until the age of 11, and it is a neurological criterion that the child needs to pass at this stage in order not to pass later, in adult life, in a late way.
If your child has a habit of putting his hand on his nose or doing something disgusting, don't worry, it will pass! LOL.
In this period, there is a Sublimation of the sexual drives, and the child enters the playful, playing phase.
Playing, she develops the expression of Joy, which will support you in more difficult situations in adult life. It will be by playing that she will develop adjusted Empathy and Socialization. It's a period when the values ​​she received from her parents and caregivers and that formed her character intensify, it's time to think about the Other! Long live Empathy!
His sexual organs are practically ready for procreation, but he still lacks emotional maturity. Here the primacy is of the Superego, which is our internal censor of Modesty and Sexual Repression.
As in the other previous phases, there are the consequences of the Good Phase and the Bad Phase that can be caused by the lack or excess and let's go to them:
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good phase
- The child can play quietly.
- Receives guidance and attention from parents and caregivers.
- In this way, you develop and improve the Empathy and Creativity that will be useful to you in the future when solving problems.
Has Fase
- The child has not received what is necessary and may become infantilized, playing and behaving like a grown-up child, and may have difficulties in establishing ideals, in enjoying study and work, in addition to the possibility of remaining chronically self-centered.
- In the Latency Period, the child needs to be respected and have the right to play, avoiding early sexualization, as it is a time of socializing that will be of great importance to learn to be supportive and understand the other, be friends and participate in the community, leaving from the center of its existence.
With this phase well done, we will be creating people who do not think that their own navel is the center of the world. Evaluate the importance!
In the next text, we will end this series of articles with the Genital Phase, which goes from 11 to 25 years old approximately…
Until then!
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