apres-coup: çeviride anlam kaybı ya da fazlası*

The concept of apres-coup appears to be embedded within Freud's first topographical theory in his metapsychology. Just as it points to the two temporal nature of trauma, it also expresses that, upon reaching a more mature physical and psychic stage, the experience from the first moment acquires a sexual meaning and is transformed into trauma. Analysis, starting from this subsequent meaning, helps either to remember or to construct the original trauma through the effect of aprescoup. This, in turn, contributes to the unfolding of temporality and the creation of time. Apres-coup is an opener of time.

In Freud's second topographical model, where he theorizes concepts such as death drive, repetition compulsion, apres-coup seems to have either disappeared or turned into a ghost. Indeed, the experience that repeats itself as it is, actually freezes time and eliminates it.

In this article, how apres-coup operates both within a person's psyche (intra-psychic) and in the inter-psychic space created by two subjects in the analytic setting will be discussed, based on the theoretical contributions of different contemporary psychoanalytic schools on this subject and also through an example from the author's own clinical experience.