Time and Memory

by Rosine Jozef Perelberg (Editor)

Overview

The concern with time permeates Freud's work, from Studies on Hysteria to Analysis Terminable and Interminable, which point out to a network of concepts that indicate Freud's complex theories on temporality. Indeed no other psychoanalytic thinker has put forward such revolutionary vision on the dimensions of time in human existence. This volume brings together some of the most important papers written on the topic by members of the British Psychoanalytical Society. In the richness of the detailed clinical discussions the ways in which patients deal with time and memory are viewed as crucial indications about their internal world and ways of relating to their objects. Disorientation regarding time tends to reflect levels of disruption to internal object relationships, inability to mourn or to experience guilt. Examples from literature and history are considered in order to examine the power of the repetition compulsion - Nachtreglichkeit - as well as how the impossibility of bearing the mental pain can lead to the creation of a timeless world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429923029
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/19/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	178
File size:	387 KB

About the Author

Rosine Jozef Perelberg

Table of Contents

Introduction -- The construction of heterochrony -- Distortions of time in the transference: some clinical and theoretical implications -- "Making time: killing time" -- Existence in time: development or catastrophe? -- Regression, curiosity, and the discovery of the object -- The Aztecs, Masada, and the compulsion to repeat -- Borges, immortality, and "The circular ruins" 1