deferred action

is, as a form of revision-after-the-fact, an indication of that lived temporality is retroactive such that origins as events are known only in their later construal.

This idea of deferral opens the way for a consideration of lived temporality as retroactive, of origins as events known only in their later construal. The quote is from the indispensiable work by J. Laplanche and J.-B. Pontalis, The Language of Psychoanalysis, 112)' (Ivy 1995: 22n)

is the revision of past events at a later date such that it is this later revision which invests them with significance and even with efficacity or pathogenic force.

Deferred action' (or 'deferred interpretation') refers most fundamentally to the way subjects revise 'past events at a latter date (Nachtraglich) and that it is this revision which invests them with significance and even with efficacity or pathogenic force.' This idea of deferral opens the way for a consideration of lived temporality as retroactive, of origins as events known only in their later construal. The quote is from the indispensiable work by J. Laplanche and J.-B. Pontalis, The Language of Psychoanalysis, 112)' (Ivy 1995: 22n)

deferred action, n.Definitions

deferred action