Timelessness is what Time is not

Freud’s provides four ‘negative’ characteristics of the timeless unconscious: the lack of temporal order in the unconscious; the failure of the unconscious to acknowledge the passage of time; the indestructibility of the unconscious; and the inapplicability of the idea of time to the unconscious. In this chapter focuses on Freud’s notion of timelessness and asks what Freud really meant by insisting that the timeless processes of the unconscious must be understood in terms of what conscious processes are not. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.