1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910254681703321

Autore

Noel-Smith Kelly

Titolo

Freud on Time and Timelessness / / by Kelly Noel-Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

1-137-59721-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 226 p.)

Collana

Studies in the Psychosocial, , 2662-2629

Disciplina

155.2

Soggetti

Self

Identity (Psychology)

Psychoanalysis

Personality

Social psychology

Philosophy of mind

Self and Identity

Personality and Social Psychology

Philosophy of Mind

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Time and 'Psycho-Mythology -- Chapter 2. Loss, Lack and Refinding -- Chapter 3. The Importance of Discontinuity: Palpatations, Feelers and Quanta.-Chapter 4. Time and Guilt -- Chapter 5. Tragic Guilt -- Chapter 6. Timelessness is What Time is Not -- Chapter 7. The Role of the Drives in Temporality -- Chapter 8. Freud's Riddle of Time. .

Sommario/riassunto

"This is a very important contribution to the slowly emerging literature on psychoanalysis and time. By examining the influences on Freud’s thinking about time and the development of what were his mostly implicit ideas about temporality, Kelly Noel-Smith offers a lively and impeccably scholarly new way of understanding the background to current developments in psychoanalytic theory and practice." - Professor Stephen Frosh, Birkbeck, University of London, UK. "Dr Noel-Smith displays deep knowledge of Freud’s oeuvre, the relevant Ancient Greek sources that Freud drew upon, and modern philosophical thought. Her expertise is synthesized into a well-organized inquiry into



what Freud thought about time. I learned a huge amount from reading this clear, well-informed and profound exposition." - Professor Charles Stewart, University College London, UK. Time and timelessness are fundamental principles of psychoanalysis yet Freud does not present a consolidated theory of temporality. In this book Kelly Noel-Smith pieces together Freud's scattered 'hints' and 'suspicions' about time and its negative, timelessness. She traces a careful temporal trail through Freud’s published works and his daunting Nachlass, and provides a compelling reason as to why Freud kept his remarkable thoughts about time to himself. Kelly Noel-Smith combines a career in law with an academic interest in psychoanalysis and philosophy. .