Time and timelessness are fundamental principles of psychoanalysis yet Freud does not present a consolidated theory of temporality. In this book Kelly Noel-Smith pieces together Freud's scattered 'hints' and 'suspicions' about time and its negative, timelessness. She traces a careful temporal trail through Freud's published works and his daunting Nachlass , and provides a compelling reason as to why Freud kept his remarkable thoughts about time to himself.

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)

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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.

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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.