Distortions of time in the transference: some clinical and theoretical implications

摘要

The author considers that patients' distortions of time can frequently and readily be observed in clinical psychoanalysis, reflecting both their psychopathology and their reac- tions to the temporal aspect of the psychoanalytic setting. These phenomena are consid- ered in order to examine the assumptions that can implicitly be made about the nature of spac and time in object-relation theory. Two case histories are given to exemplify these clinical phenomena- the first being an example of a fixation and the second one of a psychic retreat.