Aesthetic production as a key to perception of time in traumatized patients

摘要

Starting from Victor Hugo's "La forme, c'est le fond qui remonte A la surface" I deliberate the question of applying this aesthetic principle to the individually varying experience of time. As an example of realization in the area of the arts, the work "The Clock" by the American Christian Marklay is evoked and its playful treatment of time retraced. Taking the five features mentioned in Ulrike KadiE1/4s article, in particular the disruption of the sequence of the narrative, disappearance of the subject and a production close to psychosis into account, I illustrate using clinical examples how conscious and unconscious aspects of time surface in the form of clinical symptoms that seek realization. The willingness to decipher these symptoms by way of resonance in an incremental, sometimes protracted process, places psychoanalytical understanding of the symptoms in tense contrast to a rapidly categorizing direct access to medical manuals.