Metramorphosis

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Noun
  1. 1
    A creative principle supposed to be responsible for changes in borderlines. uncountable

    "The third element of the matrixial model is metramorphosis: a process of change that is a result of nonphallic ways of contacting the archaic m/Other."

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"The third element of the matrixial model is metramorphosis: a process of change that is a result of nonphallic ways of contacting the archaic m/Other."

Etymology

Coined by Bracha L. Ettinger. See Late Latin metrium (“womb”) and metamorphosis.

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