Abstract

ABREU, Scheherazade Paes de. The timelessness of the unconscious among remains and crocodiles that still live. Estud. psicanal. [online]. 2023, n.59, pp.141-150.  Epub Feb 14, 2025. ISSN 0100-3437.  https://doi.org/10.5935/2175-3482.n59a15.

This paper proposes, as mearchaeological approach, archeological metaphors about the timeless aspect of the unconscious. The problem that Freud analyzed in “Civilization and Its Discontents” and in “Letter 52 from Freud to Fließ” about the unrepresentability of the element that survived alongside, Freud demonstrated elucidation in “The Finite and Infinite Analysis”. The unconscious is absolutely timeless, but what exactly does that mean? Do times not exist in the unconscious, or to what extent do all instants of time coexist? Not by chance, Freud insisted on stating, in many writings, that something is preserved - a survival, even if it is a rag, a scar, a flash, a piece, a remainder, a ruin. But, will all material be subject to transformations and rewritings in later times? In the experience of an analysis, the crocodiles are our traveling companions. A transformation is always incomplete, parts of an earlier organization continue to exist alongside the more recent one, and old mechanisms may remain untouched by analysis. The remains survive, the grain of reality that resists.

Keywords : Unconscious; Timeless; Real; Rest; Metapsychology.

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