Psychoanalysis and the Future of Theory

In this study, Malcolm Bowie examines the meanings that psychoanalysis has ascribed to the future tense and suggests ways in which the later Lacan completes and complexifies Freud's discussions of temporality. Malcolm Bowie focuses on a moment of crisis in the history of psychoanalytic thought, challenging some of the fundamental Freudian assumptions about the temporality of discourse and drawing attention to a whole new range of opportunities that a "future-conscious" psychoanalysis might offer critics and theorists of other intellectual persuasions.