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one of mnemonic traces that are ‘corrected’ by new experiences. Far from excluding Nachträglichkeit, both of these concepts are in accordance with the term. Looking at the Wolf Man from a Latin American perpective it can be said that what is at stake is the relationship between the visualisation of the primary scene and the dream of the wolves. When the patient dreams, the conditions are given so that, via retroactive action, the re- signification of the traces of the primary scene is produced. There would be no primary scene without the dream. This calls into question the notion of determinism, according to which it is possible to know what will be traumatic beforehand. Scenes belonging to early infancy are not reproduced as memories but rather are constituted a posteriori . It is here that the controversy between the definition of a traumatic scene and a regressive fantasy arises. III. E. Specific Contributions from Latin American Analysts In psychoanalytical writings by Latin American authors, Nachträglichkeit is given different modulations. The selection of excerpts that follows will make it possible to view the various aspects of the concept that are emphasised by different authors and the multiplicity of thematic fields that this plurality of approaches gives rise to. When discussing the subject of temporality in psychoanalysis, some authors place Nachträglichkeit alongside other forms of temporality with which it coexists, despite the contradictions between them. Other authors debate the centrality and permanence of the concept in Freud’s work. They read Nachträglichkeit as a concept that was progressively substituted or underwent transformations as a result of the appearance of other concepts such as infantile sexuality or the death drive. In other analyses, Nachträglichkeit is given a central position and a hierarchy is established among the terms with which it is in accordance with: cure, therapeutic efficacy, causality, and signification. In these readings, Nachträglichkeit takes on a greater density and complexity and is shown to have connections with other concepts that disseminate the characteristics of the primary process. Leticia Glocer Fiorini (2006) emphasizes the coexistence of two distinct temporalities in Freud’s work: progressive temporality and retroactive temporality. “In Freud’s work, evolving temporalities of progressive movements, for example the psychosexual evolution of a girl and boy and their desirable goals (Freud, 1925), coexist with the concept of retroactive temporality, which assigns significance to an ‘anterior traumatic incident’ a posteriori. The linear chronology is thus disarticulated and the material incident must be re-signified (Freud, 1918)” (L . Glocer Fiorini, 2006, p.18)
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