ABSTRACT
One of the basic objectives of psychoanalytical treatment is to create the necessary conditions for the patient to be able to accept his own historical time on the horizon of acknowledging his own finiteness. After analysis, the time of egocentric self-reference should give way to a time that is tightly linked and committed to the social bound, and it is there that the subjectivity of the patient is registered. To analyse oneself is to free oneself from a viscous temporality, marked by narcissistic mono-themes, and to enter into the unfolding of decided acts inside a full time that can be enjoyed in its pleasurable passing, beyond anxious precipitation or the apathy of constant postponement. Analysis brings about the “metaphorical experience of time”, an effect of the insolvable tension between the “timelessness of the primary process with the symbolic temporality inherent in the language of the secondary process”.
