ABSTRACT
Winnicott's impression of the in-between as a limbo reveals the time of the found object as an aevum (Bonaventure), a time bounded by the absolute (aeternitas) on one side and the transient (tempus) on the other. Residing in limbo, the found object defies integration as it partakes of both sides of whatever polarity it may seem to join while belonging to neither. Limbo is thus the quintessential interregnum (Pontalis), a kingdom between two kings itself without a king, whose logic extends to the four founding components of psychoanalysis (drive, dream, transference and construction). Echoing Freud's thoughts on repression and Lacan's on forgetting, the Winnicottian subject emerges as a product of finding rather than a preexistent agency that simply finds. Persistent simultaneity: the logic of opposites (subject–object, finding–found, satisfaction–frustration, etc.) moves from succession to co-incidence as a more accurate formulation of desire. With this move, the axiomatic position that the unconscious is immune to time makes way for the barzakh (Ibn Al-Arabi) as a more useful rendering of the varied timings and imaginings at work in the psyche.
