A developmental line of time sense. In late adulthood and throughout the life cycle

This is the sixth and final paper in a series by the author on the normative, intrapsychic experience of time throughout the life cycle. Time sense is understood to be shaped by the primary forces that influence development at all points in the life cycle: an amalgam of past temporal conceptualizations, current developmental themes, and environmental influences. After a summary of the development of time sense in infancy, childhood, adolescence, and young and middle adulthood, this paper focuses on the experience of time after age sixty. The effect of death awareness and death anticipation, life reviews, reminiscence, and object relationships is discussed, as is the emergence of late-life generativity and wisdom. These concepts are illustrated by clinical material from the analysis of seventy-year-old woman.