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afterwardsnessnoun
The concept that an earlier event in one's life can later acquire a meaning.
Etymology: . 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.
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Afterwardsness
In the psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud, afterwardsness is a "mode of belated understanding or retroactive attribution of sexual or traumatic meaning to earlier events... [from the German word] Nachträglichkeit, translated as deferred action, retroaction, après-coup, afterwardsness". As summarized by another scholar, 'In one sense, Freud's theory of deferred action can be simply stated: memory is reprinted, so to speak, in accordance with later experience'.
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Afterwardsness
Afterwardness is a concept in the psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud, used to describe a 'mode of belated understanding or retroactive attribution of sexual or traumatic meaning to earlier events... [from the German word] Nachträglichkeit, translated as deferred action, retroaction, après-coup, afterwardsness'. As summarized by another scholar, 'In one sense, Freud's theory of deferred action can be simply stated: memory is reprinted, so to speak, in accordance with later experience'.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of afterwardsness in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of afterwardsness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
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