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Counter-Time: Temporality of thought and history in clinical practice and literature book cover

1st Edition

Counter-Time Temporality of thought and history in clinical practice and literature

By Marina Breccia Copyright 2027
316 Pages
by Routledge

316 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores how trauma affects our experience of time, how that experience may not be linear, and how we may experience 'counter-time' – a disruption or arrest of time’s flow and a perpetual return to the time of trauma. Counter-Time explores this phenomenon in clinical practice and in examples from literature and history, including mass trauma such as genocide. Survivors of trauma can... Read more

1. The Shadow Zone  2. Time in Trauma  3. Rituals and Repetitions  4. Present and Current/Actual: multiple and heterogenous identity – identity denied  5. Traumatic Dislocation: Genocide A brief introduction to the link between trauma and time, and a clarification about current history  6. Life Autobiography – Death Autobiography: autobiographical time  7. Crossing Time: historical temporality in ‘Psychotic Potentiality’  8. In the ‘End’: end is termination; end as goal – Julie: or the New Héloise  9. Conclusions

Biography

Marina Breccia is a Psychiatrist and Training Psychoanalyst at the Italian Psychoanalytical Society (SPI) and International Psychoanalytical Association. She is also an External Professor of Psychiatry at Pisa University and Foreign consultant for Revue Belge de Psychanalyse. She has written several monographs and contributed to jointly-authored volumes.

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