Question

Johnny is eight years old. he likes to play with other little boys, but has no interest in playing with little girls. according to freud, he is in the __________ stage.

Answer 1

The answer is "Johnny is in latency period".

Latency period refers to the fourth phase of psychosexual advancement in psychoanalytic hypothesis, from around five years to pubescence, amid which a youngster evidently stifles sexual inclinations and likes to connect with individuals from a similar sex. It is gone before by the phallic stage and took after by the genital stage.