Incubation period

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Freudian Dictionary

INCUBATION PERIOD (OF TRAUMATIC NEUROSES)

The phenomenon of a latency in the neurosis between the first reactions to the trauma and the later appearance of the illness must be recognized as typical.[1]

The time that elapsed between the accident and the first appearance of the symptoms is called the "incubation period," a transparent allusion to the pathology of infectious disease ....[2]

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