Main Theories Infantile Sexuality Interruptions in the Period of Sexual Latency Believes that in the third to fourth year can the child's sexual life begin to be observed. An interesting note is that the child goes from a highly sensual being, through social contacts and some hereditary instincts, into a sexually repressed individual. This act of repression, Freud believed, is the cause of all infantile amnesia. Sublimation is the process of reaction- formation in which …
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…possibility of its occurrence. Because the girl does not have a baby she becomes envious of the boy, she wishes to possess a penis herself. This brings to bear the desire to receive a baby from her father. The wish for a penis becomes a wish for a baby. The two wishes- to possess a penis and a child -remain strongly cathected in the unconscious and help the female for he her later sexual role.