metramorphosis

English

Etymology

Coined by Bracha L. Ettinger. See Late Latin metrium (“womb”) and metamorphosis.

Noun

metramorphosis (uncountable)

1. (matrixial theory) A creative principle supposed to be responsible for changes in borderlines.
   • 2011, Pat Paxson, Art and Intuition: Borderlines and Boundaries:

     The third element of the matrixial model is metramorphosis: a process of change that is a result of nonphallic ways of contacting the archaic m/Other.

Related terms

• metramorphic