CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Psychoanalysis at a Crossroads -- The Question of Time: Between Freud and Heidegger -- The Structure of this Book and the Presentation of Freud and Heidegger -- PART 1: Heidegger and the Status of Time -- Introduction -- One The Subject and Time: From the Cogito to Dasein -- The Cartesian Subject -- Kant and the Transcendental Subject -- The Heideggerian Alternative: Dasein in the World -- Two "Being in the World" : The Two-fold Structure of Everyday Life -- Phenomenology as the Science of Being -- Being and Beings: The Layered Structure of the World -- The Worldhood of the World -- The Self and the 'They' -- The Uncanniness of Everydayness -- Three Being-There in Time -- Care and Temporality -- The Ecstatic Structure of Temporality -- Heidegger Reading Aristotle: The 'Now' and the Horizon of Time -- Temporality: The Primordial Structure of Time -- Projectedness, Understanding and Meaning -- A Metaphysics of Presence -- Temporality and Selfness: an Inversion of the Notion of Time -- PART 2: Freud: A Temporal Lacuna -- Introduction -- Four The Role of Time in the Psychic Mechanism: Freud's "Projectˮ and its origins in Brentano -- The Psychic Mechanism in the "Projectˮ -- The Status of Time in the "Projectˮ -- Freud as Brentano's Student -- The Theoretical Connection Between Freud of 1895 and Brentano of 1873 - A Discussion of Aviva Cohen's interpretation -- Brentano's Epistemology -- Temporal Consciousness in Brentano's Thought according to Husserl -- Summary -- Five Freud's Concealment of Temporality: Ida Bauer ("Doraˮ) as a Case Study -- The Case of Ida Bauer -- Contemporary Psychoanalytic Commentary -- Why Has the Freudian Method Overlooked Ida Bauer's Emotional World? -- The Concealment of Temporality by Freud's Technique of Interpretation -- Ida's Dream.

The Technique of Interpretation as Dependent upon the Phenomenon of Temporality -- Summary -- Six From Neurosis to the Structure of the Mind: The Question of Time in Freud's writings, 1905-1937 -- "Three Essays on the Theory of Sexualityˮ [1905] -- The Topographic Model of the Mind [1913] -- "Beyond the Pleasure Principleˮ [1920] -- The Structural Model of the Mind and Time (1923-1937) -- Closing Time: The Notion of Time in Freud's Thought -- PART 3: Psycho-Ontology -- Introduction -- Seven An Ontological Reading of Narcissism -- The Role of Ontological Thought in Relation to Psychoanalytic Theory -- The Recourse to Primary Narcissism in Post-Freudian Psychoanalysis -- Narcissism as a Manifestation of a Non-Linear Flow of Time -- From Narcissism to Reality: Freud and Loewald -- The Temporal-Ontological Structure of Narcissism -- Eight Back to Ida: Psychoanalytic Concepts as Manifesting Temporal Relations -- Transference, Counter-transference and Temporality -- Ego, Repression, Unconscious and Temporality -- Therapy and Temporality -- Closing Note -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.