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Temporal levels and reality testing

J T Fraser

    The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis
    |January 1, 1981
    PubMed
    Summary

    This study redefines time, proposing a subjective experience influenced by unconscious perceptions and psychic energy dynamics. It suggests that integrating archaic time perceptions with present realities is key to ego integrity and reality testing.

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    Area of Science:

    • Psychoanalytic theory
    • Psychology of time
    • Philosophy of time

    Background:

    • Psychoanalytic practice traditionally assumes an objective temporal framework.
    • This assumption is challenged by the need for an epistemology accommodating multiple realities.
    • Previous models did not reconcile subjective and objective time perceptions with scientific understanding.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To reformulate the concept of time within psychoanalysis.
    • To develop a concept of time that is not world-independent.
    • To integrate subjective temporal experience with objective time and other sciences.

    Main Methods:

    • Analysis of the uncanny feeling in relation to time perception.
    • Examination of the developmental aspects of the sense of time.
    • Exploration of unconscious, archaic modes of time perception and their influence.

    Main Results:

    • Conscious time evaluation is influenced by unconscious, archaic time perceptions.
    • The dynamics of psychic energy influence the subjective experience of time's passage.
    • A balanced integration of archaic and present temporalities is crucial for ego integrity.

    Conclusions:

    • A new concept of time is proposed, independent of man but retaining objective passage.
    • Subjective time experience is shaped by unconscious factors and psychic energy.
    • Reality testing reliability reflects the integration of primitive temporalities with present ambiguities.

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