The term “latency” was borrowed by Freud from Fliess. During the latent period, the life of drives is inhibited, goes into a latent, hidden state, and becomes almost completely invisible. Family romance fantasy (applies to the age from 6-7 years to 9 years ) and the fantasy of twins (age from 9 years to 10-11 years) are normally unconscious. Fantasy of a family romance: by the will of fate, I do not live with my real parents, probably something happened and my real parents lost me. But the time will come, I will gain strength and then I will make every effort to live with them. As a rule, those “real” parents are rich, status, and powerful than those with whom he lives. The basis of this fantasy is the protective mechanism of displacement. This fantasy transfers aggression from real parents to fictitious ones, thereby the child seems to say: those people with whom I live are unworthy of either love or aggression. This fantasy also becomes an incentive for self-improvement, because in order to find real parents you need to be strong and courageous to go a long way of searching. As mentioned earlier, this fantasy is unconscious, it structures behavior, but if the child has a dysfunctional relationship with his parents, this fantasy becomes conscious. He has questions: are these my real parents? Or maybe there are others? When relationships are pathological, children often have an irresistible desire to run away from home, they look for their real parents and their real home, even if they themselves do not realize it. A child can run anywhere, but no one ever runs away from home, they always run home. Fantasy of twins: I have a twin, but unlike me, he can do everything. I am a social being, and he is a natural one (for example, the Kid and Carslon, the Prince and the Pauper). The basis of this fantasy is the protective mechanism of projection. The double, to whom everything is possible - this is my bad part, this is the natural part of me that prevents me from being social. Despite the fact that this fantasy is characteristic of the latent period, nevertheless, breakthroughs of impulses of impulses occur (to fight at school, to run away from class, etc. .) - that is, do what you want. Such impulse breakthroughs are normal, because it helps to open the valve slightly and release excess steam. After all, if a child’s drives are too repressed or such outbursts do not manifest themselves at all, then he becomes prone to the development of neurotic symptoms, primarily of an obsessive nature (obsessiveness).).