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noun
The (repeated) disappearance and reappearance of an object, especially as a source of pleasure in child play.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, psychology, sciences
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History
Borrowed from German fort (“gone”) and da (“there”), exclamations that Sigmund Freud heard his grandson utter while playing, described in Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920).
