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latency

is the incubation period (84) during which no trace of the forgotten/repressed memory (in this context both the murder and monotheism) is apparent, even though it persist in a dormant state to return later in time.

Freud defines latency as the 'incubation period (84) during which no trace of the forgotten/repressed memory (in this context both the murder and monotheism) is apparent, even though it persist in a dormant state to return later in time. Freud's account of latency here partially reproposes his hypotheses as outlined in Beyond the Pleasure Principle. In cases of traumatic neuroses the traumatic compulsively reemerges 'to conjure up what has been forgotten and repressed' (beyond 37) in the form of dreams, flashbacks, and uncontrolled compulsive behaviours.

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latency