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Peller illustrates with many excellent examples the use to which fiction can be put in understanding the child in the latency phase. Referring to this literature she discusses the different constellations of drives and defenses for the boy and the girl in this period and concludes that certain of the sex-specific differences between them are just as definite at that time as in adult life.