ABSTRACT
A tendency to return to the past–a regressive process–made analytic thinking return surreptitiously to a pre-psychoanalytic conception of time. One might be tempted to see in it a complementary form of the ignorance of time defended by Anna Freud at the level of unconscious phenomena. The idea of the thread lends itself perfectly to the idea of different conceptions of temporality revolving around one and the same axis. One of the most typical mechanisms of organization of temporality according to psychoanalysis is the apres-coup. However, from an opposite point of view, through the contributions of contemporary psychoanalysis, one can highlight factors favouring the disorganizations of temporality, or, failing this, factors impeding its integration. In conclusion, the normal structure of temporality is that of an exploded time, diffracting the past experiences that inevitably succumb to the work of the negative because they are linked to prohibitions that no longer permit them anything but an unconscious survival unavailable to memory.
