Freud and the riddle of time: Some puzzling aspects

In this paper I explore the issue of time in Freud's writings from different points of view: his linking of time with consciousness, the supposed timelessness of the unconscious, the return of the repressed, the dialectical approach to time in his concepts of bi-temporality and afterwardness, the notion of "transience", and time as a "feeler". I will argue that there is no uniformity in Freud's conception of time, which leaves space for "heterochronicity" and different representations of temporal experience.