deactualization
English edit
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Etymology edit
de- + actualization
Noun edit
deactualization (plural deactualizations)
- Making less real or existent.
- 2011, Jurgen Straub, Jorn Rusen, Dark Traces of the Past: Psychoanalysis and Historical Thinking[1]:
- This method of actualizing deactualization of what has passed is the only appropriate type of forgetting in cases of severe trauma.