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Haydee Faimberg, Argentinian trained, resident of France for many years, discusses the concept of temporality in Freudian texts and she reformulates the concept of Nachträglichkeit (Faimberg, 1981, 1993, 1995, 1998, 2005, 2012) by creating a broader conceptualization of the term, both different and congruent with Freudian thought. This broader conceptualization also arose from her clinical work and readings of Winnicott`s clinical accounts and his underlying assumptions. She states (Faimberg, 2007) that the broader conceptualization is essential both in the retroactive assignment of new meaning, through interpretation, and in the assignment of meaning for the first time, through construction. She localizes two moments, one anticipatory stage, as already there, and other stage of assignment of retroactive meaning, which gives psychic existence to the anticipatory phase. Faimberg (Faimberg, 2012) also localizes the implicit presence of the concept of Nachträglichkeit in Winnicott’s writings and defines a type of interstitial presence of the concept in his work, a presence that is in operation even if it is not named. Her reading of Winnicott’s texts “Fragments of an Analysis” (1955 ) and “Fear of Breakdown” (1971) are a link between the psychic temporality and the cure experience itself. She moves one step further in the formulation of temporalization and signification, (Faimberg, 2013) articulating them not only with the compulsion of repetition but also with the paternal function. The author describes that Winnicott creates conditions that enable the advent of that which never took place. In the situation that has not yet arrived she locates the possibility of the advent of paternal function in the psychic functioning. This creation of something that does not exist is implicitly associated with the operation of Nachträglichkeit. These are operations that are carried out and that constitute psychic places, permitting the advent of the subject. These formulations of Nachträglichkeit show how psychoanalysis produces a psychic change. Jaime Szpilka, Argentinian psychoanalyst, Spanish resident, begins his paper (Szpilka 2009) with a statement about the question of Nachträglichkeit. He considers it is essential to the theory and psychoanalytic direction of treatment. He questions the motives behind the concept being pushed into the background, something he believes occurs not only in post Freudian authors but also in Freud himself. Szpilka (2009) discovers that Freud mantains Nachträglichkeit and implements it in different ways as he incorporates other concepts into his works. The author puts forth the idea that Nachträglichkeit should not be discussed in chronological terms but rather in logical ones, distancing himself from any connection to empiricism. The ‘before’ is not a product that precedes, but instead it is an inherent formulation of the ‘after’. He breaks down the modes in
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