preorigin

plural preorigins

1. An ultimate source or origin, before the generally known or accepted origin.

   The positing of an origin in other words always goes along with the suppression of its own pre-origin.

   2012, Jacques de Ville, Jacques Derrida: Law as Absolute Hospitality

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   In order to uncover and thereby unleash the force that both constitutes and disrupts signification in language, Kristeva returns to what she identifies as the source of that force, an ontological preorigin of meaning.

   1998, Lynne Huffer, Maternal Pasts, Feminist Futures, page 78