Loss and memorialization.
Drawing upon Dana Birksted-Breen's work on temporality, and the contrast which she draws between linear, developmental time, seen as a series of unchanging moments, and bidirectional, process time, which is retranscribed again and again (Birksted-Breen [2003] 2016. "Time and the Apres-Coup." In The...
| Published in: | International Journal of Psychoanalysis Vol. 105; no. 6; pp. 950 - 960 |
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Dec2024
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