afterwardsness
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From afterwards + -ness. Coined by Jean Laplanche in his 1998 work Essays on Otherness, as a translation of Sigmund Freud's German term Nachträglichkeit, on the model of the French translation après-coup.
Noun
[edit]afterwardsness (uncountable)
- (psychoanalysis) The concept that an earlier event in one's life can later acquire a meaning.
Translations
[edit]the concept that an earlier event in one's life can later acquire a meaning
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