The Experience of Time: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (The International Psychoanalytical Association Controversies in Psychoanalysis Series)

In This book's hypothesis is that psychoanalysis revolutionizes the common conception of time, similar to the revolution in physics. While it does not ignore the 'psychological time arrow' no doubt distinguishing past, present and future, psychoanalysis reveals that in analytic experience, time acquires diverse formations in which these distinctions become more complex and fade until they take the shape of what Andre Green, in a felicitous expression, calls 'le temps eclate' ['exploded time']. In contemporary psychoanalysis, the concepts of time and history have become increasingly complex. It. Read more... COVER 1 CONTENTS 6 SERIES PREFACE: Controversies in Psychoanalysis Series - IPA Publications Committee 8 ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS 10 FOREWORD: “The past is present, isn’t it?” - Henry F. Smith 16 INTRODUCTION - Jorge Canestri and Leticia Glocer Fiorini 24 CHAPTER ONE: From the ignorance of time to the murder of time. From the murder of time to the misrecognition of temporality in psychoanalysis - André Green 32 CHAPTER TWO: A problem with Freud’s idea of the timelessness of the unconscious - Charles Hanly 52 CHAPTER THREE: Why did Orpheus look back? - Michael Parsons 66 CHAPTER FOUR: Unconscious memory from a twin perspective: subjective time and the mental sphere - Jean-Claude Rolland 76 CHAPTER FIVE: The time of the past, the time of the right moment - Janine Puget 106 CHAPTER SIX: The impact of the time experienceon the psychoanalysis of children and adolescents - Ingeborg Bornholdt 128 CHAPTER SEVEN: Time and the end of analysis - José E. Milmaniene 148 CHAPTER EIGHT: The first narrative, or in search of the dead father - Rosine Jozef Perelberg 164 CHAPTER NINE: The destruction of time in pathological narcissism - Otto Kernberg 186 CHAPTER TEN: Hindu concepts of time - Satish Reddy 206 INDEX 226 In contemporary psychoanalysis, the concepts of time and history have become increasingly complex. It is evident that this trend offers us an opportunity to think about the intercrossing of the different temporal dimensions imbuing the subject, an inevitable aspect of the analytic process. History is time past but what is recovered is now the working through of the subject history, which carries the mark of both passing time and re-signifying time. It is precisely the notion of history that gains different dimensions when a purely deterministic analysis is disassembled. Continuities and breaks are found between subjective time and chronological time; between the inevitable decrepitude of the biological body with the passing of time and the timelessness of the unconscious; between linear, circular times and retroactive re-signification; between facts, screen memories, memory and the work of constructing history; between the times of repetition and the times of difference; between reversible and irreversible time; between the timelessness of the unconscious and the temporalities of the ego. This book's hypothesis is that psychoanalysis revolutionizes the common conception of time, similar to the revolution in physics. While it does not ignore the 'psychological time arrow' no doubt distinguishing past, present and future, psychoanalysis reveals that in analytic experience, time acquires diverse formations in which these distinctions become more complex and fade until they take the shape of what Andre Green, in a felicitous expression, calls 'le temps A clatA ' ['exploded time']. In contemporary psychoanalysis, the concepts of time and history have become increasingly complex. It is evident that this trend offers us an opportunity to think about the intercrossing of the different temporal dimensions imbuing the subject, an inevitable aspect of the analytic process. History is time past but what is recovered is now the working through of the subject history, which carries the mark of both passing time and re-signifying time. It is precisely the notion of history that gains different dimensions when a purely deterministic analysis is disassembled

Psychoanalysis has revolutionized the common conception of time, similar to the revolution in physics. While the contributors do not ignore the psychological time arrow of past, present and future, they believe that in analytic experience, time acquires diverse formations in which these distinctions become more complex and fade until they take the shape of what André Green, in a felicitous expression, calls exploded time.

Contributors: André Green; Charles Hanly; Michael Parsons; Jean-Claude Rolland; Janine Puget; Ingeborg Bornholdt; Jose Milmaniene; Rosine Perelberg; Otto Kernberg; Satish Reddy.