future anterior, n.All

Future anterior (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠how revolutions justify themselves: the law still to come will, after the fact, have legitimated the violence that founded it.

The Future anterior (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠Lacan's Thesis 11: the repressed past is never known as such, only in the process of its transformation — what is realized in my history is what I shall have been for what I am becoming.