Jay Rothermel’s Reviews > Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative > Status Update

....narrative order, sequence as a logical enchainment of actions and outcomes, must be considered less a solution than part of the problem of narrative explanation. How we narrate a life—even our own life to ourselves—is at least a double process, the attempt to incorporate within an orderly narrative the more devious, persistent, and powerful plot whose logic is dictated by desire.

Anaphoric, in linguistics, refers to a word or phrase that points back to a preceding word or phrase for meaning. It's essentially the opposite of cataphoric, which refers to something later in the text. 

....the illusion of a striving toward perfection is to be explained by instinctual repression and the persisting tension of the repressed instinct, and the resulting difference between the pleasure of satisfaction demanded and that achieved, the difference that “provides the driving factor which will permit of no halting at any position attained”

Freud, BPP