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I WISH FIRST TO COMMENT about latency in girls without attempting a comprehensive discussion of the complex changes that occur. Latency in girls is generally accepted to have occurred when there is apparent relinquishment of the oedipal wishes, with the abandonment of the wish for a child from the father. The motive force is fear of the loss of the mother's love (Freud, 1924a). Additionally, there is the realistic disappointment of the wish for the child. Other authors (Horney, 1926); (H. Deutsch, 1930); (Lampl-de Groot, 1928) have added the fear of penetration and destruction by the father's penis. A concomitant diminution of sexual drive is postulated as usual but not inevitable. There is a shift from the primary objects to peer relations. Ambivalence with girl friends reflects an earlier pattern in the relation to the mother. Triangular relationships among girls are frequent and more or less mirror the oedipal constellation. Boys are treated with contempt, and their aggressiveness and dirtiness are reacted to with disgust. These attitudes serve also to repudiate the girl's earlier envy and masculine wishes.