Post-Modern Temporality

Time, Being and Ontological Illness

Abstract

This work aims to investigate temporality concerning postmodern psychic illness, through a phenomenological perspective. For this, we sought to understand, through a narrative bibliographic review, how these concepts are constructed, to visualize how they can be interconnected. The course showed that postmodernity brings together modifying characteristics of the experience of time, through an unstoppable acceleration that accentuates epochal unrest described as a psychic illness. Existential-phenomenology suggests putting these labels on hold to think about ways of being as a denunciation and possibility, given that, in this perspective, illness refers to a stop in the rhythm of daily life, providing an opening sustained in the idea that the problem does not reside in the illness, but in the stiffening of it as the only possibility of existing, taking away the freedom of the Being. Therapeutic care should welcome anguish free from labels so as not to repeat the logic of suffering.