afterwardsness

English

Alternative forms

• afterwardness

Etymology

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

afterwardsness (uncountable)

1. (psychoanalysis) The concept that an earlier event in one's life can later acquire a meaning.

Translations

the concept that an earlier event in one's life can later acquire a meaning

• Portuguese: posterioridade f