Dealing with time in psychoanalysis
Bartosch, E.
Zeitschrift für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychoanalyse 22(3): 209-223
1976
ISSN/ISBN: 0340-5613 PMID: 961091 Document Number: 101314
Psychoanalysis offers two alternatives: Timelessness as well as the division of time into individual sessions. Experience of analytical time by the patient is being demonstrated by examples from analytical practice in such a manner that from it the phase of development of anal-narcissistic problems can be deferred as the dominating one. The discussion of analytical literature arrives at the same result. In digesting the considerations of H. Kobut on narcissism the problem of the limit, in particular of the asolute limit of death is being described as basic threat to narcissism. The attempt is made to defer the evolutionary conditions of some mechanisms of defense against the conception of death from the anal-narcissistic context.