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Existence in time: development or catastrophe.

David Bell1

  • 1davidbell@hotmail.com

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly
|August 24, 2006
PubMed
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Experiencing time is key to development, but some dread it, creating a timeless world to evade catastrophe. This illusory state offers temporary relief but intensifies underlying threats, impacting the capacity to mourn and bear guilt.

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Area of Science:

  • Psychoanalysis
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Literary Analysis

Background:

  • The phenomenology of the depressive position is linked to the experience of existing in time.
  • Awareness of time and one's place within it is a significant developmental achievement.

Observation:

  • Some patients perceive time not as developmental but as an imminent catastrophe to be evaded.
  • This evasion leads to the creation of an illusory timeless world, offering relief but compounding threat.

Findings:

  • The "picture in the attic" from "The Picture of Dorian Gray" symbolizes an inescapable, unacknowledged threat.
  • The capacity to mourn and bear guilt are linked to temporal awareness and causality.
  • Freud's "On Transience" anticipates key aspects of Klein's depressive position regarding time and mourning.

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Implications:

  • Understanding the dread of time is crucial for psychoanalytic treatment.
  • Literary analysis can illuminate complex psychological states related to temporality.
  • The capacity to tolerate guilt and loss is tied to accepting one's existence in time.