ABSTRACT
Again, what is on offer is neither paradoxical nor contradictory but, more emphatically, is the possibility of thinking within repetition without the dominance of the Same; in other words an already present thinking within and thereby also of abeyance; a thinking which in its own enactment differentiates itself from destruction. The immediate problem is how to formulate such an adventure. How does it come to be stated? As has been suggested Freud’s concept of ‘working through’ (Durcharbeiten) provides a beginning, an opening. Here that opening will be traced initially within the confines of his technical paper of 1914, ‘Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through’.62 It will be in terms of this paper that the presence-perhaps even the named presence-of the process marked out by the term Nachträglichkeit will come to be reintroduced.
