Time and Memory
1st Edition
Published on 31. December 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
178 pages
978-1-85575-434-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.'The various chapters of this book explore how the psychoanalytic notions of time can find expression in clinical practice, and shed light on historical events or literary creations. Patients create a characteristic sense of time and space in the transference. Patients' distortions of time reflect their psychopathology as well as their reactions to the temporal aspects of the psychoanalytic setting. Patients who deny the passage of time are resistant to change, to mourning, and, ultimately, death. They also, at times, deny bodily and psychic development. Examples are compared to demonstrate the unconscious processes underlying the particular time distortions being considered, their impact on the patient's lives, and their manifestation in the clinical setting. Psychic reality is discontinuous and the structure of the discontinuities will be revealed by the impact on the patient of the temporal aspects of the psychoanalytic setting. Together, all chapters in Time and Memory indicate the profound contribution that a psychoanalytic understanding of time can bring to the understanding of the history of the individual, of historical events, and to works of literature.'- Rosine Jozef Perelberg, from the Introduction
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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.'The various chapters of this book explore how the psychoanalytic notions of time can find expression in clinical practice, and shed light on historical events or literary creations. Patients create a characteristic sense of time and space in the transference. Patients' distortions of time reflect their psychopathology as well as their reactions to the temporal aspects of the psychoanalytic setting. Patients who deny the passage of time are resistant to change, to mourning, and, ultimately, death. They also, at times, deny bodily and psychic development. Examples are compared to demonstrate the unconscious processes underlying the particular time distortions being considered, their impact on the patient's lives, and their manifestation in the clinical setting. Psychic reality is discontinuous and the structure of the discontinuities will be revealed by the impact on the patient of the temporal aspects of the psychoanalytic setting. Together, all chapters in Time and Memory indicate the profound contribution that a psychoanalytic understanding of time can bring to the understanding of the history of the individual, of historical events, and to works of literature.'- Rosine Jozef Perelberg, from the Introduction ContentsIntroduction - Rosine Jozef PerelbergChapter 1. The Construction of Heterochrony - Andre GreenChapter 2. Distortions of time in the transference: some clinical and theoretical implications - James RoseChapter 3. 'Making Time: Killing Time' - Paul WilliamsChapter 4. Existence in Time: Development or Catastrophe - David BellChapter 5. Regression, Curiosity and the discovery of the object - Rosemary Davies Chapter 6. The Aztecs, Masada and The Compulsion to Repeat - Gregorio KohonChapter 7 Borges, Immortality and the Circular Ruins - Catalina BronsteinContributors: Andre Green, James Rose, Paul Williams, David Bell, Rosemary Davies, Gregorio Kohon and Catalina BronsteinMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional Practice & Development
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 147 mm
Weight
880 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85575-434-8 (9781855754348)
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Rosine Jozef Perelberg, PhD, is a Fellow and Training Analyst of the British Psychoanalytic Society, Visiting Professor in the Psychoanalysis Unit at University College London, and Corresponding Member of the Paris Psychoanalytical Society. She edited 'Gender and Power in Families' (with Ann Miller); 'Psychoanalytic Understanding of Violence and Suicide'; 'Female Experience: Four Generations of British Women Psychoanalysts on Work with Women' (with Joan Raphael-Leff); 'Freud: A Modern Reader'; 'Time and Memory'; and 'Dreaming and Thinking'. She is the author of 'Time, Space and Phantasy' and 'Murdered Father, Dead Father: Revisiting the Oedipus Complex' (2015). In 2007 she was named one of the ten women of the year by the Brazilian National Council of Women.
Content
Introduction - Rosine Jozef PerelbergChapter 1. The Construction of Heterochrony - Andre GreenChapter 2. Distortions of time in the transference: some clinical and theoretical implications - James RoseChapter 3. 'Making Time: Killing Time' - Paul WilliamsChapter 4. Existence in Time: Development or Catastrophe - David BellChapter 5. Regression, Curiosity and the discovery of the object - Rosemary Davies Chapter 6. The Aztecs, Masada and The Compulsion to Repeat - Gregorio KohonChapter 7 Borges, Immortality and the Circular Ruins - Catalina BronsteinContributors: Andre Green, James Rose, Paul Williams, David Bell, Rosemary Davies, Gregorio Kohon and Catalina Bronstein