ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that the importance of sensitivity to individuals' lived temporalities in the context of the psychoanalytic relationship. It also argues that interpretations of subjectivities which address their historicity and their temporality allow for attentiveness to fluidity and to monotonous fixity to gaps and to disruptions, and to the opening and closing of imaginative and creative possibilities, lived by individuals consciously and unconsciously. The chapter begins with the question of the time frame of analysis, which is located in shared chronological time. It focuses on the much debated question of change in psychoanalysis. The chapter discusses the importance of language in opening out possibilities of ways of being. It describes the role of imagination in allowing for new ways of existing in the world. The time frame of a psychoanalytic relationship such as the mutually agreed times, frequency, and length of the sessions is structured by chronological time.
