Temporality and the torments of time

Immersion in time gives birth to consciousness, as well as conflict and torment. When human beings developed a sense of future, they also gained the ability to anticipate threats from nature or their fellow beings. They thereby created cultures that are bastions of survival, as well as places of poe...

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Published in:	Journal of analytical psychology Vol. 60; no. 3; pp. 353 - 370
Main Author:	Hinton, Ladson
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	England Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.06.2015 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
Subjects:	Art rupestre arte de las cavernas arte delle caverne Case studies cave art Conscience Consciousness Culture Erinnern Humans Höhlenmalerei Jungian Theory Memory mémoire nachträglichkeit nachträglichkeit (après-coup) neurociencia neuroscience Neurosciences neuroscienze Neurowissenschaft Open space passage du temps Playfulness Poetry Professional practice Psychoanalysis Religion remembering rimembrare Temporal processing temporalidad temporality temporalità temporalité Time time travel trauma viaggio nel tempo viaje en el tiempo Zeitlichkeit Zeitreisen воспоминания нейронаука пещерное искусство путешествие во времени темпоральность травма nachträglichkeit trauma time travel neuroscience remembering cave art temporality Erinnern Zeitlichkeit arte de las cavernas Nachträglichkeit Neurowissenschaft mémoire passage du temps Höhlenmalerei arte delle caverne rimembrare temporalità viaje en el tiempo нейронаука temporalité путешествие во времени temporalidad Art rupestre neurociencia воспоминания травма Trauma nachträglichkeit (après-coup) темпоральность Zeitreisen пещерное искусство viaggio nel tempo neuroscienze
ISSN:	0021-8774, 1468-5922
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Summary:	Immersion in time gives birth to consciousness, as well as conflict and torment. When human beings developed a sense of future, they also gained the ability to anticipate threats from nature or their fellow beings. They thereby created cultures that are bastions of survival, as well as places of poetry, art and religion where they could band together and reflect upon their common plight. The practice of psychoanalysis is in many ways a temporal process, a process of remembering, for owning and elaborating a past that gives us substance, thereby providing a basis for reflective consciousness. Stimulated by Freud's early writings, Lacan, Laplanche and their successors in particular have focussed extensively on time and psychoanalysis, and their views are a central point of this discussion. A substantial case study is offered that provides concrete examples of these perspectives. A multi-faceted view of temporality emerges, one that is more syncopated than linear or teleological. In conclusion, I will briefly discuss recent findings in the neuroscience of memory and ‘time travel’ that underpin contemporary psychoanalytic ideas in surprising ways. It is important to remember that acceptance of the contradictory nature of temporal experience can open space for increased freedom and playfulness.
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ISSN:	0021-8774 1468-5922
DOI:	10.1111/1468-5922.12155