Time and Guilt

  • Kelly Noel-Smith
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Abstract

Chapter  5 elaborates the inference we can draw from Freud that we develop an abstract notion of time on or after acquiring an internally mediated sense of guilt. A developmental progression takes place, according to the author’s reading of Freud, in a two-stage process dependant on an internalisation of what is external. In its first stage, a sense of guilt is evoked only when one’s actions are discovered by an external figure of authority; it is in the second stage, on an internalisation of these authority figures, that guilt becomes an internally mediated proposition from which there is no escape. What Freud calls the ‘time-factor’ [Zeitmoments] seems to develop alongside our internal agencies of observation and judgment.

Keywords

Greek Tragedy Oedipus Complex Ritual Murder Epic Poet Hysterical Symptom 
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  • Kelly Noel-Smith
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  1. 1.LondonUK

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