Refractions in Time: A Minkowskian Understanding of Being Dislocated in Time

Abstract

This paper explores a client’s experiences of being-out-of-time, and their location of an agentic and interpersonal version of themselves in an imagined past time-world. I use the work of Eugène Minkowski to explore these experiences and provide an alternative framework for working with temporality to that offered by Heidegger and psychotraumatology.