ABSTRACT
If the Freudian unconscious does not include the measurement of time, it does constitute the source of the subject’s representation of time. The sense organs that are turned towards the external world establish a periodic activity of consciousness, which introduces a system of marks that provide the psychic apparatus with a rhythm. What is not abstract in psychoanalysis is that there is no temporal ordering of psychic phenomena; time does not modify them at all. This results in a remarkable clinical fact, that Freud stressed: repressed representations behave, even after several decades, as if they were only just produced. Analytic discourse shows the symptomatic character of the subject’s relation to time and the variations due to different clinical structures, thereby isolating different solutions that integrate the dimension of time. In all the clinical structures there is a question of knowing how to integrate the dimension of time with the solution that is offered by the psychoanalytic transference.
