Time in Practice
Subtitle: Analytical Perspectives on the Times of Our Lives
By: Mary Lynne Ellis
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2018
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780429484049
Subjects: Psychoanalysis; Psychanalyse
Description: "This book is an original exploration of the importance in the analytical relationship of an attentiveness to lived, conscious and unconscious experiences of time in its three dimensions. It critically discusses the diverse concepts of time implied in different writings in the psychoanalytic tradition, namely those of Freud, Jung, Klein, Lacan, and Winnicott. "Time in Practice" highlights the limitations of spatial metaphors and the emphasis on the past as determinative. It discusses the contributions of modern European philosophical concepts of temporality. Eva Hoffman's interweaving of time and language in her autobiographical descriptions is shown to be crucially relevant to psychoanalytic practices. Exploring psychoanalytic notions of 'cure', the book emphasizes the importance of language and imagination in opening out future possibilities for the patient. Lively references to case material illustrate the relevance of its arguments."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Copy Right; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Questions of time; CHAPTER ONE: Freud: repeating or constructing?; CHAPTER TWO: Jung and the future unconscious; CHAPTER THREE: Klein: spliting the breast or split in time?; CHAPTER FOUR: More about time: Winnicot and Lacan Winnicot: holding in time Lacan: time's castration; CHAPTER FIVE:(Dis)continuous identities and the time of the other; CHAPTER SIX: Places in time; CHAPTER SEVEN: States of time; CHAPTER EIGHT: Finally ... speaking of time; References