‘Nachträglichkeit’: The intermediary of an unassimilated impression and experience

Künstlicher, Rolf

doi:10.1080/01062301.1994.10592318

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“…The role that N/AC plays in the retroactive constitution of temporal experience and in traumatic psychopathology, which is also crucial in clinical settings, has been further interpreted in the scientific literature explicitly in relation to meaning-making processes, which seem to be crucially involved in the constitution of memory traces grounding a person’s self-narrative. Albeit not explicitly speaking of meaning-making processes, Künstlicher (1994) seemed to anticipate more modern views of the function of N/AC as a sense-making mechanism, and argued that N/AC operates as a “screen” against the world, since a person’s self-narrative changes through “translations” and “reinterpretations.” As expressed by Goldin (2016), personal narratives are in their essence forms of reorganization and translation of experience in the form of N/AC. House (2017) thought of the human psyche itself as a constant process of creation of meaning, where “translation” seems crucial to understanding the temporal bidirectionality of N/AC.…”

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“…The line of research pertaining to the last domain is mainly represented by Faimberg's (1997Faimberg's ( , 2005Faimberg's ( , 2007Faimberg's ( , 2013 contributions, which were found to be the most substantial in recent decades, among other authors (Escobar et al, 2017;Harris, 2021;Harris et al, 2021;House, 2017;House & Slotnick, 2015;Künstlicher, 1994;Margulies, 2018;Stern, 2017). Accordingly, retranscriptions in the form of N/AC meaning-making processes are never-ending mechanisms associated with the "otherness" within us, which continuously exerts a pressure on the signification of experience.…”

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Nachträglichkeit and après-coup in the psychological scientific literature: A systematic review and future perspectives.

Mezzalira¹,

Pick²,

Palmieri³

2023

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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The crucial role of Nachträglichkeit/après-coup (N/AC) in psychoanalytic psychology has been afforded lower consideration in the scientific literature than other relevant psychoanalytic constructs. No systematic reviews have been provided on this construct. We aimed at investigating the many facets of the psychoanalytic significance N/AC as addressed in the scientific literature, outlining its potential developments. According to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines, we selected peer-reviewed, indexed articles based on the psychoanalytic concept of N/AC in the scientific literature. The keywords we entered in Pubmed, Web of Science, Scopus, and Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing (PEP) were: Nachträglichkeit, après-coup, and psych*. Studies published between the 1950s and 2022 were considered. The initial database search yielded 600 results. After duplicates removal, 414 contributions were screened, of which 35 articles met the inclusion criteria. A metasynthesis of the latter revealed that N/AC is crucially involved in four different—albeit partially overlapping—domains, where N/AC respectively features as (a) a metapsychological construct explicative of the retroactive constitution of experience, (b) a cornerstone for the emergence of traumatic psychopathology, (c) a resource of the therapeutic process in clinical settings, and (d) a core facet of meaning-making processes involved in the constitution of memory. As a nonlinear, multidimensional process, N/AC is still recognized as a crucial concept in the scientific literature. Yet, no attempts were found, which investigated the phenomenon from an empirical standpoint. Based on the theoretical cues provided in the selected literature, future explorations of N/AC in terms of meaning-making processes and neuroscientific perspectives are suggested.

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Nachträglichkeit and après-coup in the psychological scientific literature: A systematic review and future perspectives.

Mezzalira¹,

Pick²,

Palmieri³

2023

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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“…We should also consider Freud's (1918/1955) concept of Nachträglichkeit . Künstlicher (1994) describes in his illustration of Nachträglichkeit how Freud made this concept have at least two meanings: how earlier experiences get their meaning in retrospect through actual fantasies in the psychoanalytic situation, and how the original traumas are transferred into the future as a pathological process, what Freud called repetition compulsion . Karlsson (2000), in discussing the existential and hermeneutical meaning of Nachträglichkeit , points out that “the existence of 'nachträglichkeit' illustrates this unfinished character of experiences” (p. 20).…”

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The ambiguity of the psychoanalytic situation and its relation to the analyst's reverie.

Våpenstad¹

2010

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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This article is about ambiguity in psychoanalysis, an ambiguity that is particularly striking in the psychoanalytic relationship between patient and analyst. The analyst is a professional in his consulting room, in his chair behind the patient, but he is at the same time a figure in the patient's realization of his inner world of objects. The analyst is a transference figure, but he is also a real person with his own inner private reverie and a subjective contribution to the analytic process. For some patients, the ambiguous analyst is an enormous challenge or threat. This article describes parts of the analytic process with one such patient, a man with an early history of severe trauma who at the start of his treatment completely denied this ambiguity and felt every reminder of his analyst being anything else but professional as a threat to his sanity. The author tries to show how the improvement of the patient's tolerance for ambiguity depended on the work done in the analyst's private reverie, a quite demanding process for the analyst.

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“…Without a suf ciently intact intentionality, in terms of continuity, coherence and wholeness, there is no chance for the pleasure principle to emerge and no wishing is possible. When consciousness contains large gaps, it may be the task of the psychoanalyst to af rm a real event and to function as a ' rst witness' (Künstlicher, 1994). Here we are dealing with a pure reconstruction, as opposed to the reconstruction that emanates from unconscious material (ruled by primary processes and the pleasure principle), which rather should be called a constructed reconstruction (cf.…”

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The conceptualisation of the psychical in psychoanalysis

Karlsson¹

2004

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis

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This article aims to clarify the psychoanalytic conceptualisation of the psychical, which includes a discussion of the relationship between consciousness and the unconscious. The unconscious is conceived of as being on the border between the so‐called ‘ego's conscious intending’ and a rudimentary body‐ego experiencing. Phenomenological ideas on the essence of consciousness are used in order to help delineate the crucial differences between consciousness and the unconscious. Only consciousness is characterised by an awareness of itself, that is; self‐consciousness. Furthermore, consciousness is characterised by an intentional, synthesising capacity, whereas the functioning of the unconscious, in its most radical form, is the opposite ofthe intentionality of consciousness. It is argued that the unconscious pre‐supposes certain pre‐sexual processes, in the form of a body‐ego's formation of continuity, coherence and wholeness. The body‐ego belongs to the sphere of consciousness/self‐consciousness, even if self‐consciousness is only given implicitly in the body‐ego and not as a fully fledged ego cogito. Attention is drawn to neglected issues in psychoanalytic theorising, namely self‐consciousness and the constitution of existence. The importance of this neglected area for the psychoanalytic process is illustrated with clinical examples.

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‘Nachträglichkeit’: The intermediary of an unassimilated impression and experience

Cited by 9 publications

References 5 publications

Nachträglichkeit and après-coup in the psychological scientific literature: A systematic review and future perspectives.

Nachträglichkeit and après-coup in the psychological scientific literature: A systematic review and future perspectives.

The ambiguity of the psychoanalytic situation and its relation to the analyst's reverie.

The conceptualisation of the psychical in psychoanalysis

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