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English
Etymology
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), probably from a blend of French externe (“external”) + intimité (“closeness, intimacy”).
Pronunciation
Noun
extimacy (countable and uncountable, plural extimacies)
- (psychology) In the works of Jacques Lacan: the quality of being extimate.
References
- ^ Jacques Lacan (1986) Jacques-Alain Miller, editor, Le séminaire de Jacques Lacan. Livre VII: L’éthique de la psychanalyse: 1959–1960 (Le Champ freudien ), 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, →DOI, →ISBN.