Volume 67 (2026), Issue 2

Different ways of experiencing time are illustrated with clinical vignettes from children with autism, and related to their characteristic experience of dimensionality and their predominant mode of identification. Following Meltzer’s...

This paper explores the differing organisation of time and space across the three clinical subgroups of autism described by the Vista Autism Center (VAC): congenital sensory-based (deep) autism; the autisto-psychotic spectrum; and post-traumatic...

In the debate between psychoanalysis in person and at distance, this paper attempts to define the psychic space through its deeply emotional roots, which are genetically rooted in the primary somato-psychic exchange processes between mother and...

After a description of the development of the fetus and the intrauterine formation of its sensory capabilities, the focus lies on the endogenous rhythms developed by the fetus and their interaction with those of their mother’s organism. Following...

This paper attempts to trace the development of the experience of time and space. The earliest experiences of time and space emerge from the demands placed on the mental system. In the deferred gratification, duration and extension must be processed...

Referring to physical and neurobiological concepts relating to the phenomenon of time, the author argues that a mental space-time emerges along the arrow of time in every human development. In it, the individually represented time domains of the...

Various psychoanalytic concepts address the issue of time, but they are largely based on an outdated physical understanding of time. The aim of this paper is to contrast psychoanalytic concepts of time with contemporary physical models in order to...

The author proposes ways of rethinking the concepts of the unconscious and time in the analytic setting, including the very existence of the unconscious. Freud (1915e) stated that the success psychoanalytic thinking has in making inferences about...

Offering an example of treatment technique – a kind of »reconnaissance of the Oedipal event« –, this paper illustrates how to profitably work with Judith Le Soldat’s theory. The »robbery/murder« committed in one’s imagination is seen...

How do we apply Judith Le Soldat’s theory of Oedipal conflicts in clinical practice? This is a question we are often asked in lectures and workshops. Le Soldat herself placed little emphasis on treatment issues in her publications. Therefore, it...