Temps et parole dans les psychoses
Time and Speech in Psychoses

Summary/Abstract: The paper highlights the relevance of time for the clinic of psychoses. It links time, language and being in order to illuminate possible ways to (re)consider psychosis. The author argues that the dimension of time is equally important for Jacques Lacan as those of repression and the return of the repressed are for Freud (as asserted in the paper, the dimension of time completes the mirror stage). In fact, time represents a third dimension and a solution for a difficult dualist Freudian interpretation, allowing the therapist to observe and interpret the patient’s symptom more effectively. The symptom (or its absence) is particularly evident in the case of psychosis where the relation the patient has with time reveals ones attempt of finding a solution to a precarious way of being more astutely. Both hallucination and delirium are such attempts and involve a suspension of time. Given this contextualization, the author concludes that an interpretation is possible for psychotic cases and, even more, that the question of interpretation in psychosis is at the heart of what psychoanalysis itself is.

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