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investigation entails, that any form of memory can be summoned within the transference relationship, and therefore enter a more complex dynamic of Nachträglichkeit than what can be observed in standardized laboratory experiments.
III. Feb. Nachträglichkeit and historical-societal context: transgenerational transmission of destructive aggression In the United States, Maurice Apprey (1993, 2014) coined the terms “dreams of urgent, voluntary errands”, “pluperfect latency” and “pluperfect errands” in order to capture enigmatic and uncanny returns in his work on transgenerational transmissions of destructive aggression in both traumatized individuals and communities that have endured prior catastrophic traumatic events (Apprey, 2003). ‘Errand’ here speaks to the idea that there is someone’s intentionality that will come to be remembered or has come to be made one’s own. Implicated in the psychological use of the word ‘errand’ is a composite idea that there is a potential ‘error’, a ‘wandering away’, a ‘mistake’, and a ‘mandate’ to be carried out by the subject for an internal object. Referencing Claude Romano’s (2009) return to oneself ; Nicholas Abraham’s (1988) phantom ; Faimberg’s (2005) telescoping of generations ; and Vamik Volkan’s (2013) chosen traumas and chosen glories , capturing mental representations of collective memories , Apprey (2014) constructed a ten-fold mnemic metasynthesis of all the above contributions to the transfer of memory from catastrophically destructive events of history to a ‘resubjectivized’ and recontextualized sense of history: 1. Something is injected from an anterior source. 2. That hitherto injected pro-ject is housed in a hospitable place for storage for an indeterminate time. 3. That same something is now suspended and its transfer is deferred. 4. That something becomes a project that carries a mandate for an errand to be obeyed. 5. The mandate is accommodated with an urgent voluntary reception. What is urgent is the ancestral mandate injected into the early and inchoate ego. What is voluntary is the subject’s own resubjectivization of the mandate. 6. The subject awaits a suitable new object to reawaken the project so that the self-same project or a derivative project can return to a public space. 7. By this time the subject shall have lost sight of who originally sent whom. 8. Active and passive have by now become interchangeable. 9. A middle voice that is neither entirely active nor entirely passive speaks in an invisible and inaudible way. 10. Through a middle-voiced happening the subject returns to itself or to some representation of beginnings in the form of an unending spiral reproduction of transference(s) . This circular taxonomy suggests that sedimentations of history (Husserl, 1977/1948) are reactivated and then reconfigured through transference wishes that have the intentionality of overturning a deadly, mandated, or received errand in the safer contemporary arena of the clinical situation through reciprocal connection and reciprocal corrections within the transference-countertransference continuum (Apprey, 2006). Moving beyond reciprocal connections into a spiral domain of endless analyses of transferences and psychologically
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