The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἀφάνισις“disappearance”
- English todayaphanisis
From Ancient Greek ἀφάνισις (aphánisis, “disappearance”). In the psychology sense, coined by Ernest Jones in 1927.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
aphanisis
Today it means: The disappearance of sexual desire, supposed to be the foundation of all neuroses. Full definition →
Ancient Greek ἀφάνισις