Latency stage

For other uses, see Latent period.

The latency stage is the fourth stage of Sigmund Freud's model of a child's psychosexual development. Freud believed that the child discharges their libido (sexual energy) through a distinct body area that characterizes each stage. The latency stage is the fourth of the five Freudian psychosexual development stages: the oral, the anal, the phallic, the latent, and the genital.

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