Question of Time

Dr. Joel Pearl specializes in phenomenology and psychoanalysis on which he has published several articles. He teaches philosophy at the Academic College of Communication, Rishon LeZion, Israel. In addition, Pearl is a dynamic psychotherapist and a member of The Tel-Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPsychoanalysis at a CrossroadsThe Question of Time: Between Freud and HeideggerThe Structure of this Book and the Presentation of Freud and HeideggerHeidegger and the Status of TimeIntroductionThe Subject and Time: From the Cogito to Dasein“Being in the World”: The Two-fold Structure of Everyday LifeBeing-There in TimeFreud: A Temporal LacunaIntroductionThe Role of Time in the Psychic Mechanism: Freud’s “Project” and its origins in BrentanoFreud’s Concealment of Temporality: Ida Bauer (“Dora”) as a Case StudyFrom Neurosis to the Structure of the Mind: The Question of Time in Freud’s writings, 1905-1937Psycho-OntologyIntroductionAn Ontological Reading of NarcissismBack to Ida: Psychoanalytic Concepts as Manifesting Temporal RelationsEpilogueBibliographyIndex

"a magnificent piece of interdisciplinary scholarship, one that warmed my own post-Cartesian psychoanalytic heart … I am grateful to have encountered Pearl’s highly illuminating top-down explication of what Heidegger’s conception of temporality has to offer Freudian psychoanalysis" – in: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA) 61/6 (2013)"Joel Pearl’s A Question of Time - Freud in the Light of Heidegger’s Temporality is a brilliant, original book, which guides the reader through Heidegger’s profound analysis and philosophical thinking toward a novel formulation of key concepts in psychoanalysis and toward significant conclusions, pertinent to clinical practice. It implies nothing less than a new definition of psychic health - the self’s ability to be open to its possibilities in time. The unique manner in which the self is open to its possibilities in time constitutes part of the person’s agency. One can regard the ability to return to past events as needed throughout the course of life, providing meaning for present self-possibilities, as well as the ability to move toward the future, as the cornerstone of mental health." – in: Sihot: the Israeli Journal for Psychoanalysis, Dec 2012