Jahrbuch der Psychoanalyse

Since Descartes until the second half of nineteenth century the mind has been thought as an unextended substance occupying, no place, no space. This notion prevented for more than two centuries the possibility of any science of mind. It has changed...

The chronological time provided by our consciousness is distorted in many ways under the influence of the unconscious. Freud summarised these forms of distortion under the term »timelessness« of the unconscious. Just like the concept of time, the...

Drawing on the writings of Sigmund Freud, the author suggests that the categories of time and space require a specific approach in psychoanalysis. He discusses the timelessness of the unconscious in relation to Freud’s assertion that psychic work...

The aporia of Nachträglichkeit is examined as a tension between progressive and regressive temporal structures. The aim of the study is the hypothesis that the regressive time vector of Nachträglichkeit can offer a heuristic and hermeneutic model...

The preconscious, as described in the first topic, is located between the ego and the unconscious. This is where exchange processes and connections develop, fed by instinctual energy and organised by repression. Among other things, the preconscious...

Freud provided an important impetus for dealing with the topic of »time« in his A Note Upon the »Mystic Writing-Pad«. Psychosomatics and disorders in relation to this »reality«, which we find in our clinical work, speak against the idea that...

In the author’s view, working through temporality is central to the development of personality, thinking and the ability to differentiate. Finitude is the most important concept in contemporary psychoanalysis, insofar as it stands in contrast to...

Freud invented psychoanalysis during his self-analysis and through it (Anzieu, 1990, p. 4), discovering a specific perceptual attitude for which he coined the term »evenly hovering attention« in 1912. However, he subsequently refrained from...