Time and space lived in psychotic delusion
- Ariane Bilheran
- May 14, 2009
- 11 min read
Bilheran, A. "Temps et espace vécu dans le délire psychotique", in Santé Mentale, 2009.
Introduction
Time and space are for us primary perceptions, which offer a possible framework for all other perceptions and then for subsequent representations.
Delusion has its own lived time and space, and particularly delusion in psychosis. Because in psychotic delusion these perceptions return in a fundamental way, that is, they are no longer necessarily affected by social norms, but they still share a universality, similar to an anthropological dimension of the conception of space-time.
In fact, society codifies a time and a space shared by all: it is the time of clocks, a time artificially established to achieve consensus. The same is true of space: spatial identification is geometric, operated by signs, arrows, orientation paths, etc.
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