Time in Practice : Analytical Perspectives on the Times of Our Lives

Ellis, Mary Lynne

Karnac Books（2008/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 230 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781855755611
• DDC分類 150.195

Full Description

This book is an original exploration of the importance in the analytical relationship of an attentiveness to lived, conscious and unconscious experiences of time in its three dimensions. It critically discusses the diverse concepts of time implied in different writings in the psychoanalytic tradition, namely those of Freud, Jung, Klein, Lacan, and Winnicott. "Time in Practice" highlights the limitations of spatial metaphors and the emphasis on the past as determinative. It discusses the contributions of modern European philosophical concepts of temporality. Eva Hoffman's interweaving of time and language in her autobiographical descriptions is shown to be crucially relevant to psychoanalytic practices. Exploring psychoanalytic notions of 'cure', the book emphasizes the importance of language and imagination in opening out future possibilities for the patient. Lively references to case material illustrate the relevance of its arguments.

Contents

ContentsIntroduction: Questions of Time1 Freud's time: repeating or constructing?2 Jung and the future unconscious3 Klein: splitting the breast or split in time?4 Winnicott and Lacan: More about time 5 (Dis)continuous identities and the time of the other6 Places lived in time7 States of time8 Finally...speaking of time