The work I’m going to present it’s about the analysis of time’sissue, studied from different perspectives, commencing from the philosophicalapproach and arriving to the
phenomenological one, used for studying different livedtime experiences.The first part of thethesis consists in presenting the main philosophical ideas concerning themeaning of time and all the big life questions connected to this subject. Sinceancient times
human beings have always been wondering on themes like themeaning of life and death, and time brings with itself also this sort ofissues. Therefore I started from Plato’s theory (after a brief introduction onParmenides and Heraclitus concepts), arriving to Heidegger’s opinion, passingthrough Aristotle’, Saint Augustine’, Kant’, Hegel’, Husserl’ and Bergson’sideas.The second chapter isabout the psychoanalytic theory and conception of time, hence since Freud’sideas on the a-temporal quality of the
Unconscious. In fact, here I go deeperinto the connections among time and unconscious, art, dreams and myths; thehypothesis on the human being development of time awareness; the studies on theorigin of
memories, theme related to the re-
building (through therecovery of repressed memories) and the building (of experiences thathave never reached consciousness) of
patient’s life.The third part of thethesis focus on the phenomenological approach and it’s about
lived time,topic studied in depth by Eugene Minkowski (1968). In this chapter, timeis considered from a subjective point of view letting alone the ‘scientifictime’, the one you can measure with clocks. Minkowski looks into therelationship between the human being and the becoming environment, basing hisstudies on the concept of élan vital, a drive which push every humanbeing toward his/her fulfilment and his/her own future. The author analyses thedifferent time figures existing in past, present and future; they aretemporo-spatial structures of experiencing located between lived time andspatial time, as well as between being and becoming,structures that make real the openness and connection among the latter.Finally, in the lastchapter, the time survey moves towards clinic, thanks to the references onpatients’ lived time. In fact, from a phenomenological point of view, I godeeper into the analysis of depressive time, maniac time, obsessivetime and schizophrenic time, considering the experience of duration (livedtime) as a big hand for seeing and understanding every patient in his/herown being-in-the-world.
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