Freud on Time and Timelessness

Kelly Noel-Smith, a philosophy graduate, has spent more than a decade studying Freud, first at the Tavistock (where she published a paper on Freud and Kant) and then at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, where she completed a PhD on Freud and the ancient Greek influence under the supervision of Professor Stephen Frosh.

• Chapter 1. Time and 'Psycho-Mythology.- Chapter 2. Loss, Lack and Refinding.- Chapter 3. The Importance of Discontinuity: Palpatations, Feelers and Quanta.-Chapter 4. Time and Guilt.- Chapter 5. Tragic Guilt.- Chapter 6. Timelessness is What Time is Not.- Chapter 7. The Role of the Drives in Temporality.- Chapter 8. Freud's Riddle of Time.

"Noel-Smith's book is an original and scholarly inquiry into Freud's constructions of time and timelessness. ... Thankfully, Noel-Smith's contribution offers us a modern reading of a return to Freud and a beautiful explication of his theories of time." (Ryan Allison, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 62 (4), January, 2017)