Writing about nachträglichkeit in time. Review on the Bernard Chervet`s book Après-coup in psychoanalysis

Abstract: 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.