Death and time in the sixth decade of life

1-generation psychic space for death.

Presentation of the topic

In this first part of the communication attempt to argue that, with the passage of years, and around fifty begins to produce a psychic space for death. Seek support in the Freudian text, and finally illustrate these ideas with the dream of a patient.

Freudian texts

a) When Freud was 57 years old, in 1913 wrote "The issue of the choice of casket," and on p.314 says "[...] The creation of the Fates is the result of the insight that warns the human He is also part of nature, and therefore is subject to the inexorable death [...] the old man strives in vain for the love of women [...] [...] only the silent goddess death, will welcome in his arms [...]".

Max Shur (1972) notes that yddisch (who knew Freud), moira means fear and fate.

b) In 1927, when Freud was 71 years old, reflects on a memory as distant, as he prepared to enter the fifties. In 1904. "[...] As a mature man [...]" first visited the Acropolis hill in Athens, and the spell was mixed with a sense of wonder and disbelief at what he saw as a attempt to disprove the reality. Freud analyzes the refusal due to the father, "[...] it seems as if the success was essential to have gone further than the father [...]".

When in 1936, an old man in the open letter to Romain Rolland on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of it, ("A memory disorder prevention ..."), introduced about his own age and said:" [. ..] I'm ten years older than you, my production languishes. What I offer is definitely a man's gift depleted "once seen better days" [...]", in AE, T 22, p 209 ,. The best years refers to the memory on the Acropolis (the impoverished remnants of the glory of the Ancients, which refers to the father). Bliss, was marred by a "point of piety," and adds in the letter "[...] And now it will not astonish you, that the memory of the experience of the Acropolis haunt me from that old man I same, I have become a poor man of indulgence and I can not travel [...]".

Freud in his fifties, has a "point of piety," an expression of identification with the father, and seeing the ruins, denies the reality and joy. Then the question ¿"All this does exist as we learned in school?" A question can be projected into the future that could indeed be so, how old we become, in ruins?.

This question is answered 30 years later, when he says "[...] old myself, I have become a poor man of indulgence [...]". In 1904 he did not want to see the ruins to which man is doomed, and the misery that this produced in his mind, but it was taking shape in his mind and projected as exterior construction, the space on which questioned. The space of death.

c) The manuscito "The splitting of the ego ...", 1938, was end-do on Jan. 2, and wondering about the cost of the denial turned to a saying," as we know only death is free " ,-in AE, T XXIII, p.275 .-, as final reference to the territory of individual life.

d) On August 22, 1938, in "Conclusions ideas and problems," AE, TXXlll, p.302 says, "Mysticism, dark sense of self that is outside the realm of the ego, the id."

e) On November 16, 1938, wrote "The letter on anti-Semitism", AE, T XXII, p. 303, quoting a saying in French that reads: "The noise is to fool / the complaint is for the dumb / honest man deceived / he leaves without saying a word." Reference to the possible alternative of life goodbye. With conceit, to grumble, or in honest silence.

By the fifties, there is evidence of decline in genital drive (but does not affect the procreative capacity, moreover, is sometimes invoked), there is greater validity of the discharge, and beyond the pleasure principle Domenico. In the absence of the denial, it is clear to return to the inorganic governed by self-preservation, the progressive difficulty of removing the harmful substances produced by their own metabolism and its implications for immune memory, a return to intrasomático sadomasochism, the slow but inexorable presence of Thanatos.

Starts contact me with your heart in it, access to lethal component to the death instinct. Just as in the mystical, progress in the meeting with that thing.

Freud says that at the origin, the self is not separate from it, "The Ego and the Id" (1923), and at that time I only aware of it. The world of perception is not yet vested and have not constituted the memory traces. For the self is aware of this, you need a sympathetic context to drive the scale not be overkill for the soul.

It starts a position, in which instead of privileging the world, they give the link to instinctual processes, with the core of life. Worldly ties the world are processed according to the oceanic feeling (Freud, 1930, "The Civilization and Its Discontents"), with a feeling of "being-one-with-the-whole", similar to an early phase of ego feeling, the restoration of limitless narcissism. The union with it is projected abroad. It generates a spatial temporal projection exteriority, an animated space habitable again, but always was, which is preparing the final moment of life.

Sheltered by a protector superego, heir of the first links, transforms the alien territory familiar.

The end of life, comes the surprising beginnings. The ability to recognize the finiteness of life, and accepting the pain that this produces recoating is perhaps the greatest psychological achievement.

When it reaches the certainty of death, the initial oceanic feeling, experienced passively and transient, is trasmuda a cosmic sense (Kohut). This is enduring, creative result of an ego.

A clinical vignette

This is the dream of a patient 55 years of age.

He is married, professionally successful, has three children 28, 22 and 20. His father died at age 59. His mother is still alive, is 94 years.

We are working on the problem of finitude, the shortening of life time, the incipient collapse of some functions, the idea of ​​death. For reasons of professional discretion, some fragments of the dream are omitted.

The dream tells me is this. "I see from the street, the front of a house under construction. The building is 3 or 4 floors, and is dividing by the house where I live now.

The first floor is quite finished, and is the balcony with a parapet of material. The bricks are singing and a bit of plaster. Surge in me the idea of ​​buying to expand my current home, turning the party wall. It strikes me that it is thinner, like plywood, and very little could communicate. I see the inside of my house, but not for today. It looks like the Pringles street where I was born, and also that of Yatai Street, which was in a house high on a furniture factory.

It looks inside the house where I lived as a child, is large, spacious patios with these tiles gleaming antique wax. I see a very thin iron pillar holding a wooden roof patio, and hardwood floors abastonados very glossy. I feel regret for that house, and I want to live in a way.

Kleiner is the architect is the one who builds the house and wants to sell. There are some drawbacks because the first floor is very noisy, loud noises of the street. It is also about a garage, which is a narrow gate. Then go back, and there is a large courtyard where the cars parked as a parking lot of a dealership. Moving cars, and it looks like the back of boxes, where they put the cars to fix and a concourse of access. "

I will relate some of the associations that seem relevant to the subject of psychic space for death.

The balcony parapet. It is noteworthy that says no such parapet and railing, or defense, a term more common in Buenos Aires. In his associations linking it to parapecho, bra, souttiennne, and this in her bra, a garment to the breast. This is a communication with a space, linked to the breast. ¿Contact the womb, back to the womb that communicates with the childhood home?.

Space is about the birth with the trailing space, which separates it from just a plywood. This is to be undermining the separation between birth and death.

The backyard with the cars and the pit is associated with livery stable and thoughts associated with death. The three or four floors of the building, linked to the years you have left to have her age when her father died.

A number of other partnerships that the theme of ambition (polished floors) that are associated with ink, print and take to Freud's dream of Irma's injection, (my patient knows the meaning of it for their profession ). It is his desire to shine, while the conflict with his eldest son who is represented by the architect Kleiner (name that means little, and which nominated his eldest son, transforming the otherwise-large as p [or the smallest) who wants to sell the new department (refer to the issue of parricidal wishes, death space, succession and inheritance). But the architect Kleiner, also represents him, which must assume their parricidal wishes, symbolically kill the father, take their place instead of giving up his son). But this is closer to death. While not take the place of father denies his own death.

"In a day of man are the díasdel time since that initial time inconcebibledía in a prefixed terribleDios agoníashasta days and that other in which the ubiquitous ríodel earthly time around its source [...]"

"James Joyce. I commend the sombraJorge L. Borges. Emecé OC BA Ed 1974.



2-The problem of time in the sixth decade of life (His metapsychology)

In this second part of my communication will develop the theme of time in old age, for which follow the following order:

a. The problem of time.

b. Assumptions about the passage of time in the elderly. a. The problem of time. How time flies!, It is becoming increasingly less!, It happened fast!, As you grow up!, I'm next in line!, Or in the context of parent-child relationships, "Our times and of you, are different "," you have all the time in the world "(aimed at children).

Presenesencia Towards the perspective of time is taken more depending on what you need to live, that since birth. Raises the awareness of finitude, marked by the growth of children and the death of parents. Why is the subjective feeling that time passes more quickly life? and contrary mundane time is slow acceleration and feelings of impatience.

Try to answer these questions.

General concepts about psychic constitution of the time. These developments are based on ideas of D. Maldavsky, "Temporalities of repetition", 1991, Ed signs Universita-market (in press). The theme of temporality had multiple allusions in Freud. The relationship between edge and ontogeny, setting theory of drives, drive and ego regression, the link between repetition and recollection, the inferred temporary construction phases of libidinal development, stratification of successive memory traces, the joint in the fantasy of past, present and future.

Some Freudian quotations relating to the time: 1) Letter of December 6, 1896 to Fliess, where he speaks of the mnemic traces stratification, which undergo a rearrangement as a form of transcription. 2)) "The Interpretation of Dreams", 1900, where it refers to the articulation of the footprints by simultaneity (passivity and activity), analogy, and causality. The concurrency citerio implies not only a link in memory traces, but a way to handle the urgent need to drive discharge, which has singularities at each eroticism.

3) "Transient", 1916th, which refers to the transitory quality, value and exhaustion to always "the beauty of the human face and time" .4) In 1923, in "The Ego and the Id" , assumed that Eros, as opposed to the death drive aims to complicate the life.5) In 1925, in "The Block gang-Villoso" discontinuous operation assumes that the perception is the basis of the idea of ​​time. The discontinuity is central to the psychic production time, and becomes the regular investiture drive movement and subsequent decathexis. With the endowment becomes conscious (Freud, 1895) and consciousness disappears, when the endowment is interrupted. Dynamically, then, flow, ebb and libidinal, which generates the discontinuity, requires two different places as required. In turn, this movement is a result of stress evolution of the intercellular relationships. In order to preserve the structural complexity of toxic cell death ("Beyond ... 1920) in their own excrements, and conveys the complexity, which leads to tension, resulting in flow, resulting in cycle, which marks time. It is led by Eros versus Thanatos sends the monotony. When the amount of flow increases, the pace quickens and thus fail to marked differences in time, stagnation, poisoning, lack of mental ligation and unloading.

Sexuality aims at meeting the different and thus it follows from the toxic. For its part the erogenous zones, involve a projection of the tensions endosomatic in the periphery, and through them are removed and receive incentives in the world. Every erogenous zone provides various incentives, unique to each eroticism, is a source of excitement and a gateway to perception. As such it has its amplitude, frequency, rhythms and discontinuidadse in consciousness. Attachment to an erogenous zone, carries the libidinal stagnation and closure to the outside and new projects. This constitutes a new source of temporality and discontinuity from the erogenous zones is occluded, and conditions are set to repeat. This repetition articulates erogenous zone. In consciousness there is a double record, the drive and affection, and the record mundane as sensory impression. In the constitution intrapsychic time, it is important not only differences in uptake of the three spaces proposed, but the speed. The speed and generates differences passage of the logic of simultaneity, the analogy ruled by word, and so each has its specific erogeneity.

The rate includes the concept of duration that is caused by the complexity of different speeds (affective and sensory), and sensory velocity from the affective meaning. The duration mundane, is the projection of the time interval of a drive cycle. These reflections serve to develop initially planned.

2.Hipótesis about the passage of time in the elderly.

a). Lift Freudian texts. "The Ego and the Id" (op.cit), p.42 says that "[...] the instinct of destruction is synchronized according to the rules, for the purposes of discharge, the service of Eros [...]" . on p.47 says that "[...] [...] Eros demands halt the fall in the level [..]". on p.59, "[...] Eros and death instinct in this fight [...] defends each of the other [..]".

In "Three Essays ...", 1905, A.E., TVll, p. 163,4,6,83 refers to rhythmic tugging the ear lobe, or the sucking rhythm, and that to produce a pleasant sensation matter what kind of stimulus, in particular is contained the sexual factor. "Beyond ...",( op.cit., P.61, notes that "[...] the pleasure unpleasure series aims at change of magnitudes of investiture in half the time [...]" . In the "Project ..., 1895, AE, Tl, p.357, "[...] with some inauguration show to receive the optimum period [...]".

Tens in "The Economic Problem of Masochism", 1924, p.166 "[...] Then the pleasure and pain can not be referred to the increase or decrease in a number [...] Maybe it's the rhythm, the cycle time of alterations [...]".

b) The fall of energy reserves, is self-perceived and projected on the vital time, and therefore there is "less time to live" everyday projected in time comes the "I have no time" daily.

c) The decrease of Eros, carries the least capacity to link the drive, thanatos acceleration takes precedence immediate discharge. The urgency of projected download time generates the feeling that "time passes quickly," and in the daily time comes the feeling that "I flew the day." d) The fall of the genital instinct, is linked to the drop of pleasure that articulates with the rhythms. The acceleration of the rates, causes shortness of cycles, and lower temporal space between them, projected over time strengthens the feeling that "time passes quickly." The acceleration is associated with the least chance of sustaining a erogeneity without discharge.

e) The self-perception of acceleration relative creates the feeling that things happen more slowly in relation to time itself, with feelings of impatience.

f) With the fall of Eros, and the least ability to link the drive, it accumulates and there is intoxication, it stimulates the discharge, which enhances the already produced by loss of rhythm.

g) The sexual instincts are those that have less urgency to download, this lack of urgency is the best resistance to the death drive. The instinct of self-preservation, has emergency discharge and this determines the least resistance to the death instinct. The defenses of the drives each are as follows: the defense of Eros versus Thanatos, is to keep backup libido, and it has to be desexualized, avoiding immediate download. Freud, 1921, "Psychology and the Analysis of the self", AE, TXVlll, p.131, "[...] the aim-inhibited sexual instincts [...] are particularly suitable for creating lasting bond, but instead those with direct sexual aim, they lose energy each time for work satisfaction, and have to wait until it is renewed by raising sexual libido [...]". In contrast, the defense of Thanatos against Eros, is the immediate discharge of energy (The Ego and the Id. Op.cit.)

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