http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2616 Index terms fr 0 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3823 It seems that time functions essentially different in melancholia as compared to classical neuroses. We might even say the experience of time dissapears for the melancholicus. No future is anticipated, no past determines the actually lived distress, despair and guilt. This paper illustrates by means of a case study of a melancholic woman how anticipation is necessary for the subject to be able to live. Without desire for things to come, without a past that is experienced as something that anticipated the subject as it is now, there seems to be no more than an eternal now that stupifies the subject and blurs the distinction between death and living. The absence of the structuring function of time results in the experience of utter loneliness and anxiety and consequently also shows the dramatic impact of an absence of anticipation. Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:14:29 +0200 Tue, 08 Oct 2024 14:20:09 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3823 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2615 This paper addresses the role of anticipative and retroactive processes in the constitution of the human subject, taking as a guide the psychoanalytical concept of Nachträglichkeit. Firstly, this concept is situated within the Freudian account of psychic temporality. Secondly, it is shown how Lacan applies the concept to the becoming of the subject through language. To illustrate this process, a simplified version of Lacan's "Graph of Desire" is used. Thirdly, a metaphysical counterpart to the principle of Nachträglichkeit is described, the dialectical principle of "tarrying with the negative", as formulated by G. W. F. Hegel. Thu, 29 Aug 2024 15:12:12 +0200 Thu, 29 Aug 2024 15:12:20 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2615