Abstract The author discusses some aspects of the impact of our changing society on the latency phase, while presenting a clinical case. At this age, children need a reliable environment, protecting them from sexual and aggressive overstimulation, as an essential condition for the work of latency to be carried out. As some authors point out, if post-Oedipal repression is hindered, children may be pushed towards an early, highly disruptive adolescence process. Strong and untimely anxieties may arise, requiring particular defensive and adaptive strategies. According to the author’s experience, concerns about death may be observed, these not usually being expected at the latency age. In some children, these seem to promote an early process of intellectualization. The patient described here was a violent, self-harming child from a disturbed family. As soon as his psychic state improved with psychotherapy, he expressed anxiety about mortality as a general human condition and was able to reason on the concept of infinity at a quite abstract level. The significance of this observation is discussed from a developmental point of view.

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关于“新”潜伏期的一些想法：常态和精神病理学

摘要 作者在介绍一个临床案例时讨论了我们不断变化的社会对潜伏期的影响的某些方面。在这个年龄段，儿童需要一个可靠的环境，保护他们免受性和侵略性过度刺激，这是进行潜伏工作的必要条件。正如一些作者指出的那样，如果后俄狄浦斯时代的压抑受到阻碍，儿童可能会被推向一个早期的、高度破坏性的青春期过程。强烈和不合时宜的焦虑可能会出现，需要特殊的防御和适应策略。根据作者的经验，可能会观察到对死亡的担忧，这些担忧通常不会在潜伏期出现。在一些儿童中，这些似乎促进了早期的智力化过程。这里描述的病人是一个来自不安家庭的暴力、自残的孩子。一旦他的精神状态通过心理治疗得到改善，他就表达了对作为人类普遍状况的死亡的焦虑，并且能够在相当抽象的层面上对无限的概念进行推理。从发展的角度讨论了这一观察的重要性。