ABSTRACT

This book explores the meaning of gaps and intervals between events and between experiences—the transitional space/time separating them, as well as the metaphorical bridges that could join them. It examines the experience of time as a central aspect of the psychoanalytic situation.

chapter One|11 pages

A sense of time

chapter Two|131 pages

The replacement child

chapter Three|114 pages

The window and the door

chapter Four|11 pages

Boundaries of timelessness

chapter 5|12 pages

Open-endedness and termination

chapter Six|14 pages

The year 2000

chapter Seven|67 pages

On the couch

chapter Eight|56 pages

Possession anxiety

chapter Nine|13 pages

Listening to silence

chapter Ten|10 pages

Listening to sounds

chapter Eleven|12 pages

In between and across