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Temporality and modes of language
The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis
|December 1, 1995
Summary
This study explores the sensation and representation of time, contrasting the timeless unconscious with sequential conscious thought. It highlights how language, particularly metaphor, structures the psyche and influences our perception of irreversible time and mortality.
Area of Science:
- Psychoanalysis
- Psychology of Time
- Linguistics
Background:
- Literary, philosophical, and psychoanalytic theories of time are reviewed.
- Distinction made between the sensation of time (rhythm-dependent) and its representation.
- The timeless unconscious is contrasted with sequential conscious and preconscious functioning.