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This article explores the concept of transgenerational trauma. I draw from two distinct archives to approach the "transgenerational" in a more nuanced manner – one that moves beyond a linear past-to-present trajectory. The first of these is the Freudian archive, where I revisit the concept of Nachträglichkeit to shed light on the temporal dynamics between past and present, particularly in the affective responses of young black students during interactions with their white peers. By expanding Nachträglichkeit beyond its traditional application to early childhood experiences, I argue that this concept is equally relevant in a broader array of relational contexts. The second archive I draw from is the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of South Africa. Reflecting on the TRC's public testimony process as a representation of "breaking with the past" to imagine a new future provides valuable insights into the transgenerational dynamics shaping contemporary South African society. I return to the TRC archive to focus on a pivotal moment during the opening of the TRC public hearings – a traumatic, iconic scream – to explore how this event's temporal horizons, bridging past and future, can help us comprehend a present in which the past seemingly replays itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper comments on Mark Solms' Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud and the challenges to grasp the subtleties and ambiguity of Freud's language. It argues that "translation" is not something that just "occurs"' to a text which is already completed, but an ongoing process that carries forward and explores different layers of meaning. The author tries to show that Freud saw himself as a "translator" and that "translation" reaches at the very core of the psychoanalytical endeavour. The multiple meanings of "transference", and the translation of terms like "Nachträglichkeit" and "Zweizeitigkeit" (bi-temporality), are presented as examples of this. To conclude, Freud's dwelling in two different epistemological models, the language of neurophysiology and the language of meaning, as well as the limits of translation are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I argue that lived time is anagrammatical. Anagrammatical time is a time that lands differently along race/gender/class lines. Its sens – its grammar – is rearranged by the context of its unfolding, at times effecting temporal harm while, at others, offering paths for temporal freedom. After introducing the notion of anagrammatical in part 1, in part 2, I turn to Merleau-Ponty's notions of Stiftung and virtuality to account for the "nestedness" of anagrammatical time. The past and present of anagrammatical time, I show, co-exist in the present diachronically. In part 3, I focus on temporal harm. I show how, in the context of the afterlife of slavery, the immemorial functions as a traumatic, compulsive-repetitive temporality, as a thief of time temporalizing with the felt necessity and determinacy of the future anterior. In part 4, I briefly turn to the temporal grammar of the "could have been" to think through temporal freedom. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay brings psychoanalytic theory on trauma together with film and television criticism on rape narrative in an analysis of Michael Coel's 2020 series I May Destroy You. Beyond the limited carceral framework of the police procedural, which dislocates the act of violence from the survivor's history and context, Coel's polyvalent, looping narrative metabolizes rape television's forms and genres in order to stage and restage both trauma and genre again and anew. Contesting common conceptions of vulnerability and susceptibility that prefigure a violent breach of autonomy, Coel's series and her interviews about it invite an ethics of looking that embraces a curiosity in the unknowable and untreatable kernel of subjective experience and defies and resists a policing of the survivor's thoughts and emotions. By emphasizing and exploring what psychoanalysis calls the "afterwardness" of trauma, Coel foregrounds her main character's subjectivity prior to her victimization, widens the sphere of consequence beyond the victim and criminal justice system to the survivor's larger community, and entreats that community to preserve a space for her to look and look again at everything, without judgment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article sheds light on the concept of Nachträglichkeit as a basic psychoanalytic concept that not only contributes to the explanation of the dynamic evolution of traumatization but also may serve as a basic concept in the understanding of the creativity inherent in the transformative process towards curative psychic change. We will argue 1) that Freud's concept of Nachträglichkeit can be seen in a broader perspective than as a way to understanding only the mechanism of the trauma. This will be done through a presentation of some fundamental and more recent viewpoints and interpretations of the concept; 2) that the concept of Nachträglichkeit as a complex dynamic causality of proactive and retroactive processes is a basic concept in the understanding of psychoanalytic practice as such; 3) that the dynamics of the curative effects of the psychoanalytic process may rely on the analyst's ability to include conscious and unconscious creativity in the work with the repetitive aspects of Nachträglichkeit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In "Cradling," a chapter of Baudelaire and Freud, Leo Bersani shows how desire rocks the self. Desire always manifests as a movement that draws the self both toward and away from the object that excites it. Rocking simultaneously invokes infantile erotic enjoyment, an adult sexual act, and the way that fantasy images travel in time and create new temporalities. This essay links Bersani's 1977 reading of Baudelaire's poem "Hair" with his later work by showing that when the sexual power of fantasy is denied, it often returns in the form of a fantasy of sexual power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A deep understanding of the subjective experience of time in traumatized individuals may require a comprehensive framework that takes into account both psychoanalytic and phenomenological contributions. Referring to the retroactive interpretation of past experiences, the concept of Nachträglichkeit is critical to analyze how trauma can be signified in the form of the après-coup, in which the original traces of traumatic experiences are signified only at a later time. Trauma alters the temporal sequence of past, present, and future, thus leaving the psyche in a time-shifted dimension, where the shadow of the past extends over the present, and the unbearable present hinders growth and development. A clinical vignette is presented to illustrate how trauma can disrupt the temporal nature of subjective experience by reshaping the meaning of psychic events. Ultimately, trauma treatment aims at inscribing the person's experience into a unified and coherent self-narrative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2009, at the CPLF Congress, Paris, we were delighted to work on this complex and essential, but not so easy to approach, theme in psychoanalysis, l'Après-coup, Bernard Chervet and Jacques André being the key-speakers of the Congress. Not so easy to translate in all psychoanalytic languages this Freudian concept, Nachträglichkeit so hard to describe and to clarify the psychic process involved in it, and especially the semantic and semiologic vicissitudes of the term, the metapsychological way of thinking from Freud, to CPLF 2009, till 2023, when this important book is published, we have now the great privilege to understand and to use this concept more accurately in our psychoanalytic mind and practice. As Bernard Chervet wrote as a sub-title of his book, we are certain that his entire writing is "a fulfilment of desire and thought", and a rich reservoir for our clinical, technical and theoretical matrix. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to present the relationship which exists between the functioning of mnemic systems and human temporalities as dynamic structures/processes which might be represented as complementary images of each other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following article has the purpose to show through a clinical case how the dynamic of the transference-countertransference can become a refugee for the ego. In this dynamic, the patient as well as the analyst participate, which can lead to the illusion of a psychoanalytical process without major complications. The content of the aforementioned dynamic lies in the narcissistic defense against the sexual difference, and his discover occurs inside the retroactive temporality --nachträglichkeit--. In that sense, the scene of the analysis works as a quiet and pleasant place, which undercovers another unpleasant scene related to the genital phase. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Artykuł jest próbą rozważenia koncepcji artystycznej Debory Vogel w kontekście refleksji nad transformacjami doświadczenia późnej nowoczesności. Jedną z tych zmian, którą uważam za kluczową, jest odejście od narracyjnej linearności ku polifonicznej symultaniczności, związane z przeniesieniem akcentu z czasowych aspektów nowoczesnego doświadczenia na jego aspekty przestrzenne. Drugim kontekstem, w którym rozważam fenomen Vogel, są transformacje, które zaszły w sztuce pod wpływem awangardy – z takimi jej wiodącymi pojęciami jak symultaniczność, polifonia, zaburzenie hierarchii, brak centrum, zdarzenie, wykorzenienie, zatarcie granic między sztuką i życiem. Uważam, że pełne znaczenie wymienionych wątków staje się widoczne w sztuce neoawangardowej. Śledząc wątki sztuki neoawangardowej, wyodrębniam zmiany, które wydają się ważne z perspektywy konieczności powrotu do Vogel jako ich antycypatorki. Metoda, którą przyjmuję, zakłada szczególne rozumienie antycypacji, zgodnie z którym początek (awangarda) jest współtworzona przez jej kontynuację (neoawangardę).

The paper explores the psychoanalytical and neuropathological development of the Freudian theory of Nachträglichkeit in Amrik Singh's doctoral thesis to help alleviate the psychosomatic problems of the victims of trauma. The paper chronologically elucidates the stimulus of Charles Darwin, Jean-Martin Charcot, Josef Breuer, and Friedrich Nietzsche on Freud's comprehension of neurosis, psychosis and Nachträglichkeit along latter's prodigious impact on the life and the works of Alfred W. Adler, Carl Gustav Jung, Anna Freud, Jacques Lacan, Erik Erikson, Jacques Derrida, Dominik LaCabra, and Zizek Slavoj. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ausgehend von Janus' (2021) These, dass die Psychoanalyse aufgrund der Nichtberücksichtigung der prä-, peri- und postnatalen Erfahrungen an Ansehen verloren hat, fragt der Autor zunächst, worin wissenschaftlicher Fortschritt in der Psychoanalyse überhaupt bestehen kann, und zeigt dann auf, dass die plurale Psychoanalyse nach wie vor eine erstaunliche Aktualität aufweist, auch wenn einige Autoren – wie z. B. Bion oder Janus – nicht mit ihren expliziten metapsychologischen Konzepten berücksichtigt werden. Des Weiteren verdeutlicht er anhand einer Vignette, welche Fragen bei der Rekonstruktion und Konstruktion von Traumen und Konflikten auftreten, die die Bevorzugung bestimmter Lebensphasen problematisch erscheinen lassen. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Czesław Miłosz’s Issa Valley and Claude Lévi-Strauss’ Tristes Tropiques appeared in the same year and seem to have nothing in common: the first is a novel, the second a travel report. Both, however, were written by men of the same generation who lived as expatriates. The two books’ similarity is rooted in the idea with which their authors started writing, as well as their message. In both cases, the time loop in which Miłosz and Lévi-Strauss find themselves as authors of their books, the Nachträglichkeit active in their project, is key: the story is a quest that is both recuperation and reactivation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Psychoanalytic Nachträglichkeit appears to be the temporality that structures the canzonieri in morte, that is to say, collections of poems devoted to the poet’s dead beloved. In fact, a similar process of (self)-interpretation that is both retrospective and progressive at the same time can be found much earlier in European poetry. The article starts from certain theoretical reflections and an overview of the two fundamental models provided by Dante’s Vita Nova and Petrarch’s Canzoniere in order to focus on some poems from two contemporary Italian canzonieri in morte: Eugenio Montale’s Xenia (in Satura, 1971) e Milo De Angelis’ Tema dell’addio (2005). The intent is to show how the complex temporality that Freud named Nachträglichkeit can perform different essential functions: to organize the lyric macro-text; to construct a new meaning for poems previously composed; to reconsider the poet’s own personal and poetic past; and to contribute to the creation of a new author. Certain features delineated in the canzonieri will finally lead to reflect upon the ‘self-anthology’ as a form, that is to say, an anthology of the poet’s work selected and organized by the poet him/herself.

The belatedness of analytic writing and its effects on analytic processes are explored through the concepts of nachträglichkeit and thirdness . The temporal gap between being with and writing about functions as a meaningful pause filled with opportunities for investigating unconscious pathways to the analyst's countertransference. The significance of analytic narration in affecting specific psychoanalytic developments is explored. The theoretical framework utilizes the concept of après coup , which brings to light new meanings in an afterwardness of time. Aspects of analytical writing dynamics are discussed as equivalent to those of nachträglichkeit. Analysts also deploy thirdness in constructing presentations of clinical material. This could be an intrapsychic third or an external figure representing an internal introjected third. A clinical vignette demonstrates the enhanced understanding achieved by writing. It specifically assisted in exploring the analyst's enactment relating to change in the setting, the background for which was a move to online analysis. This evoked infantile anxieties and painful confusions about loss. Historically, the patient had to navigate a path through miasmic ambiguities between reality and phantasy, truths and lies. A conclusion is reached, arguing that analytic processes extend beyond the duration of sessions, and that the processes of clinical writing can provide a significant contribution.

The topic of a structural analogy of musically phenomena and the group analytic process is hold by the example of a musicalic idea after a group session. The musicalic idea was John Dowlands song „Come, heavy Sleep“ from 1597 and its arrangement in Benjamin Brittens Nocturnal op. 70 from 1963. There appears an analogy between the structure of Brittens piece and the thinking about the process of the immediate before ending group session. The terbium comparationis is Freuds concept of „deferred action“ („Nachträglichkeit“). As Britten puts in his „Nocturnal“ the theme of Dowlands song, which is about four centuries older, just at the and of his piece, whereas in the former movements of the piece it posthum could be discernible, we can only posthum and partly know matrix phenomena of the group. They are -- as a musical piece for its listeners -- an enigmatic message (Laplanche), which never totally could be transformed in discursive symbols. practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While the term 'trauma' was originally used in medicine to denote a wound to the tissues of the body, it has more recently come to refer to the wounding impact of a shocking and overwhelming event on the mind or psyche. Trauma is a phenomenon that ruptures - rather than enters - consciousness; it is a failed experience that cannot be cognitively assimilated at the time of its arrival. Instead, the impact of trauma manifests belatedly in intrusive symptoms such as nightmares, flashbacks and other repetitive phenomena that have been classified under the rubric of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (ptsd). This chapter draws on the theoretical insights of Sigmund Freud, Cathy Caruth, and Jean Laplanche to explicate the dual temporal structure of trauma. I contend that the locus of trauma can neither be posited in the event that brought on the traumatic symptoms, nor can it be situated in the traumatic symptoms that follow. Drawing on the Freudian concept of Nachträglichkeit, I argue that the complex temporality of trauma is a missed encounter that manifests belatedly - so that which occurs too soon paradoxically occurs too late. Instead of privileging the past at the expense of the present (or future), or the present (or future) at the expense of the past, I argue that these extremes are caught up in a reciprocal and dialogic exchange. Accordingly, the past assumes a belated impact on the present and the present retroactively modifies the event of the past. Consequently, trauma bears just as much weight on the present and the future as it does on the past. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this contribution, the construction of memories is presented from a psychoanalytical perspective, in which afterwardsness (Nachträglichkeit) plays a central role. Memories are constituted in an inter-subjective process where the precipitations of sensomotoric-affective experience are evoked and recategorized, i.e. connected with corresponding constructions of meaning. In the case of traumatic experiences, this processing takes place within the framework of transference in psychotherapy, in which the splittings and dissociations are gradually reduced and a new sense of reality can emerge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Trauma abounds in Barthélémy Toguo's Heart Beat. From the torture of captives at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq to the massacre of students at Virginia Tech in the United States, the Cameroonian artist's 2008 installation powerfully visualizes contemporary scenes of human suffering from around the globe in an immersive, visually overwhelming environment. Yet, this overdose creates a space in which psychological transformation and political reorientation can occur. As a work made specifically for display in art museums of the Global North—at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, United Kingdom, and Temple Gallery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania— Heart Beat both speaks to and acts on its presumptive Euro-American viewers. Its message, the author argues, is that in today's globalized world, where life itself has become marginal to the pursuit of capital, all human beings are united by a shared subjugation and a shared victimhood. The images found within the work, as well as the physical arrangement of the space itself, animates this reality, bringing to life well-known scenes of trauma and surrounding viewers in a visual cacophony that makes its message impossible to ignore. What is necessary now is not Pan-Africanism, feminism, or any movement that seeks to advance the rights of a particular social identity, but, instead, what is needed is a radicalized cosmopolitanism, a shift from a rhetoric of particularism to a rhetoric of universalism in order to help us relate to each other first and foremost as humans. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Some psychoanalysts have commented on memory reconsolidation as a concept that corroborates the Freudian notion of Nachträglichkeit, often translated as deferred action. This paper supports this claim, although for different reasons than those offered by these psychoanalysts. According to some psychoanalysts, the analytic relationship, with the assistance of deferred action, both contextualizes traumatic memories and through retelling, helps the patient to see that the "here and now" is no longer the "there and then." This essay concurs, but parses the several senses of Nachträglichkeit, showing that the psychoanalytic translation debates about it are resolvable. Replacement of some senses of this term by the much-ignored Freudian memory-motive structure can explain, better than "deferred action" or other translations, the efficacy of this sort of recontextualization of remembered experience. The findings of neurophenomenology enrich this account of the memory-motive structure, showing its dynamic aspects that imply the possibility of psychic transformation. I conclude that there is hope for a terminal analysis, but it is also coherent to consider that unending psychoanalysis can be a way of life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on a case history that deals with a subjective misconception in the sense of a pathological conviction of the patient which severely limited his quality of life, it is hypothesized that the negative self-attribution, which is based on a real, conscious experience during schooling, can be understood as a defense against unconscious infantile emotional experiences which serves to avoid the reliving of traumatic states. Early, unbearable, incomprehensible, barely-represented states were split off, transcribed and fixed in the all-shielding construction of the pathological belief to be stupid. The analytical process develops and shows how, furthered by a meaningful dream (in the sense of Quinodoz' »dreams that turn over a page«) it gradually succeeds in gaining emotional access to the split-off layers, enabling a working-through into which the analyst inevitably gets drawn, thus having to endure the patient's agony in the countertransference before a growing understanding and transformation of the unconscious process can eventually occur. A theoretical foray sets out the conceptual context which has contributed to the background of understanding for the clinical work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Este artículo parte de una aproximación epistemológica entre la historia del arte y la teoría psicoanalítica a través de los representantes más destacados de ambas disciplinas: Aby Warburg y Sigmund Freud. Hemos realizado dicha aproximación de la mano de una de las fórmulas que ambos tomaron para dar cuerpo a su teoría: la ninfa y Gradiva. A partir de ella, hemos planteado un estudio que nos ha permitido entender la transversalidad de algunos conceptos como el Nachleben de Warburg y el Nachträglichkeit de Freud que inauguran un nuevo tipo de temporalidad, o los de inversión energética de Warburg y la condensación y el desplazamiento como mecanismos de elaboración onírica de Freud para entender los procesos de transformación y polarización de las imágenes.

Regarded by many as the pre-eminent Islamicist of the twentieth century, Henry Corbin is also the subject of much criticism, aimed primarily at his supposed overemphasis on the mythological aspects of Islamic philosophy and his idiosyncratic privileging of the concept of the imaginal world. Taking seriously an unusual claim made by Steven Wasserstrom in Religion after Religion that the redeployment of Schelling's concept of tautegory by Corbin reveals all that is wrong with his work, this essay seeks to defend both the concept and Corbin's use of it. Developed by Schelling in his late work on mythology, the concept of tautegory turns out to be, for historical and theoretical reasons, a revelatory switch point. Not only does it make clear why the imaginal 'locus' is key to understanding the unity of God – the oneness of his apophatic and revealed dimensions – it also gives us profound insights into the links connecting Islamic philosophy, German Idealism, and psychoanalysis, which all take their bearings from the esoteric or mystical idea of an unconscious abyss. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the writing of Vietnamese-American refugee writers Thuy Le and Viet Nguyen. How do their works reflect upon war trauma and loss of home, and on the lives people live afterwards? The article looks at how families share traumatic memories (or not), and at belated understanding of experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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One can only be disillusioned if once one lived within illusions -- and so disillusionment is always after the fact (apres coup or nachtraglich), as illusions come into view even as they are crumbling within. With a crisis of disillusionment -- or existential disillusionment -- one falls away from a coherence of meaning, revealing a system of intertwined fundamental illusions that had always been lived within and implicit, part of one's being-in-the-world, and that now seem broken, strange, and uncanny. This way of being that one recognizes only retrospectively may be called "illusionment," a state of being apprehended in the very process of its falling apart. That is, prior to disillusionment, there may not have been an illusion as such; rather, there was some overall effective-enough, taken-for-granted coherence, an experience of world and being that now comes into view and seems broken precisely because it no longer holds together. For example, a sense of a common "we" might be revealed to be so flawed as to have been a fiction, a fantasy, a set of pervasive, interwoven illusions that one had once naively lived within as unquestioned beliefs. Severe disillusionment, then, carries with it a sense of falling out of the once taken-for-granted world, undermining a sense of solid existential grounding. Saturating all aspects of the psyche, traumatizing disillusionments may lead to a lifelong cascade of apres coup attempts to find new grounding in how to live, as one attempts to repair this world-broken-ness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article problematizes the psychoanalytical concept of deferred - occurring in the course of therapy - attribution of meaning to traumatic experiences. The author presents the genealogy of the concept of “afterwardness” or “deferred action” in the works of Freud and certain post-Freudian interpretations. The article outlines a possible socioanalytical, relevant application of the concept in biographical studies. In the course of sociological interviewing, this use of the term would enable stimulating the process of biographical remembering of the past as well as the present self-understanding of the respondent, thanks to which the suppressed experiences, latent contents, or hitherto unconscious attitudes may be justified and acquire a new meaning for him/her. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Symbolic of what we have possessed, lost, and wish to remember, the arts can memorialize cultural experiences too telling for mere speech. Aided by art, design, and storytelling, the many millions of visitors to the National September 11 Memorial Museum are remembering together not just one or more individuals or local communities, but an entire world that no longer exists. This paper details the collaboration between exhibition designer, Tom Hennes of Thinc Design, and myself, a psychoanalytic psychologist, in the relational design of the museum. This process entailed use of parallel and intertwined perspectives on how to help visitors remember, commemorate, honor, educate, witness, and mourn in order to transform unspeakable destruction into a creative reconstruction of continuity and vitality. How a psychoanalytic consultation to a museum design team developed from applying a few theoretical principles to a more generalizable model will be illustrated with narrative accounts of key moments. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The survivor of a decade of childhood sexual trauma and violence, perpetrated by a monstrous father, produced a series of dreams in the final year of a ten-year analysis. They illuminated the 'death drive' beneath a lifelong preoccupation with dying and fantasies of submission to death, perpetuated by the promise of hoped-for freedom from pain and release from a life of suffering. The initial dream involved the collapse of a team of white horses drawing him in a pillory cart to his own hanging for a crime he did not commit. It signified the collapse of a fragile psychological system based on his role as the 'sacrificial lamb,' protecting a (not so) innocent mother. The raw truth was now unconcealed: primal, violent, and terrifying dreams and affects emerged where he was now the murderous aggressor. His dreams would become primary agents for an instinctive, life-giving authenticity to emerge, offering him clemency from the shattering repetitions of persecution and dissociation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920) brought a lot of new possibilities to psychoanalytic theory, but also a series of losses. While I recognize the importance of the death drive as a metapsychological construct, I argue that the first thing that went missing with the arrival of this groundbreaking Freudian text is the theorization of the ego instincts or the self-preservative drives. Freud never articulated some plausible inheritors of the ego instincts. I follow the Budapest School, and especially the voice of Sándor Ferenczi, for addressing this loss. The second thing that went missing after Beyond the Pleasure Principle is our openness in thinking through repetition. With the seductive formulation of the 'daemonic' repetition in this 1920 text, our theoretical imagination around repetition seems to have been affected. I draw on the work of Sándor Ferenczi for exploring new forms of repetition. Finally, I offer a Ferenczian re-reading of the Freudian Nachträglichkeit, which I see as crucial in the process of pluralizing our thinking on repetition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper is divided into two parts. The first part is an interpersonal/relational psychoanalytic account of some relationships between dissociation, time, and unformulated experience. Trauma, and the dissociation to which trauma leads, freezes time, which makes it impossible to formulate certain kinds of new experience. Instead, potential new meanings remain unformulated. The route of clinical access to frozen time is the interpersonal field: to thaw time and allow new experience, the ways in which the interpersonal field is itself frozen need to be addressed. A clinical illustration of these ideas is offered. The second part of the paper presents and explores a point of confluence between the views in Part 1 and certain aspects of French psychoanalysis, with particular reference to the concept of Nachträglichkeit in the work of Jean Laplanche and Haydée Faimberg. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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