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Le Guen comments on the difficulty of explaining l'après-coup, the inadequacies of its various translations, and Freud's original term, Nachträglichkeit, from which the English and French have drawn differing implications. The translation used in the Standard Edition, "deferred action," is particularly unsatisfactory. Laplanche and Pontalis have criticized the term "deferred action." They define après-coup as an elective rearrangement of something that, at the moment it was lived, could not be fully integrated into a meaningful context. A rearrangement is precipitated by events which permit a new type of meaning for the past experience. It is a rearrangement of psychic elements favored by the evolution of human sexuality. The après-coup is, for Le Guen, quite simply the moment when, all at once, it (the id, ça) is organized in the unconscious with new relationships and emerges in consciousness to take meaning. The best example is the reconstitution of the first castration complex in the Wolf Man, illustrated by his first anxiety dream. Three psychic periods