1. Case Study - When I Was Puerto Rican
She also learns the cultural beliefs of her various Puerto Rican environments, learning how to send a dead baby to heaven according to her mother's beliefs and the Catholic Church as introduced by her paternal grandmother. ... She writes "Men I was learning were sinverguenzas, which meant they had no shame and indulged in behavior that never failed to surprise women but caused them much suffering- (29). As Esmeralda enters school age she enters what Freud refers to as the latency stage. ... The latency stage should be a time of relative sexual calm between the more turbulent psychosexual...
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