This article discusses the role played by the latency period and time for understanding in learnings. The authors posit that from Lacan (1959), if on the one hand, the neurotic inhibition can be taken as a paralyzation in the time for understanding, on the other hand, it is possible to conclude that the structural inhibition reveals a intrinsic experience of the time for understanding, in learnings. Structural inhibition whichs antecedes and supports the conclusive act of learning and its usufruct. For such an argument, this article extracts consequences from the latency period approached by Freud (1939) in "Moses and monotheism", claiming that the latent phase becomes closer to the time for understanding approached by Lacan (1946).
Latency Period; Freud Sigmund, 1856-1939; Jacques Lacan