extimacy
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Calque of French extimité + English -cy (suffix forming nouns of condition, quality, or state). Extimité was coined by the French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (1901–1981) in 1959–1960),[1][2] probably from a blend of French externe (“external”) + intimité (“closeness, intimacy”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈɛkstɪməsi/
- Hyphenation: ex‧tim‧a‧cy
Noun
[edit]extimacy (countable and uncountable, plural extimacies)
- (psychology) In the works of Jacques Lacan: the quality of being extimate.
References
[edit]- ^ Jacques Lacan (1986) Jacques-Alain Miller, editor, Le séminaire de Jacques Lacan. Livre VII: L’éthique de la psychanalyse: 1959–1960 [Seminars of Jacques Lacan. Book VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis: 1959–1960] (Le Champ freudien [The Freudian Field]), Paris: Éditions du Seuil, →ISBN.
- ^ David Pavón-Cuéllar (2013) “Extimacy”, in Thomas Teo, editor, Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology, volume 2, New York, N.Y.: Springer, , →ISBN.