Talk:Latency stage

Relation to slowed physical development

My understanding, mostly from a psychiatrist, is that as humans developed larger brains they needed more time to "load the software", so they grow up in 20 years instead of 2 years like horses. Sexual ability is not of much use during the extra years, so sexual development is suspended. I don't have references in hand for this, but I encourage others who are aware of such to add them. Perhaps there is an article that could be linked. I read an article in National Geographic that said that more rapid development was one of the reasons that Neanderthal Man did not survive an ice age.

Related to Freud's latest works

In relation to Freud's works around the Oedipus complex, I think it should be worth mentioning the historical and personal contexts that came into placed and, ultimately, shaped his ideas.

Freud's first works, especially those collected in his work "The Aetiology of Hysteria", point out to his first theories in relation to how hysteria arises as a normal and predictable response to sexual abuse during the early stages of life.

His works sparked debate and ostrization from wealthy sectors who wanted to maintain these abuses hidden, and that led to his latest theories (like the Oedipus complex) which treated these CSA testimonies as either child fantasies or child desires.

I suggest reframing the article in a way that enphasizes these events and theories as a byproduct of a certain time in a certain era, not as purely objective facts or scientific theories. Blanca Lap (talk) 18:21, 18 December 2024 (UTC)