Notes on timelessness in cinema, comics and cure

摘要

Freud in his concept of timelessness of the unconscious develops various features starting with the idea of a possible liberation from temporal limitations by the primary process and ending up regarding timelessness as a phenomenon of resistance. I take a puzzling phrase about timelessness in Freud's Psychopathology of Everyday Life as a starting point of my investigation. By means of a graphic novel on the Wolf Man I point out three aspects of timelessness that Freud in this quotation seems to argue for. Freud's assumptions are linked to contemporary considerations about the topic of time and to Bergson's thoughts about duration. Finally I take the cinematic time-images (Deleuze) to show in which way the timelessness of the unconscious is part of our clinical experience.