Question

Young bart says to his friend "what do you want to play at recess today, war or forts?" his comrade, yevgeni, replies "why don't we try something different today and play with the girls?" completely aghast, bart yells back "are you crazy?? girls have cooties!" which stage of personality development is bart likely in, according to freud?

Answer 1

The stage of personality that Bart is likely in is in the latency stage. It allows children to suppress or to minimize their thoughts about anything related to sexuality and it allows children to have no or less interest to the other sex. It could be portrayed above as Bart thinks that the other gender, which is the girls, to be less interesting with his thought of them having cooties.