afterwardsness

Meaning

Noun

  • The concept that an earlier event in one's life can later acquire a meaning.

Origin

  • afterwards + -ness. Coined by Jean Laplanche in his 1998 work '''', as a translation of Sigmund Freud's German term Nachträglichkeit, on the model of the French translation après-coup.

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