In this master’s thesis, we explore the relationship between anxiety and time. We aim to understand their delicate, at first glance perhaps barely perceptible, yet profoundly close connection, as noted in various philosophical and theoretical-psychoanalytic texts. We engage with the link between these elusive concepts, which often resist articulation, focusing particularly on time as a possible object of anxiety – even though anxiety typically lacks a (classical) object. In anxiety, we do not know what confines us or causes our unrest; it is precisely this elusiveness that establishes anxiety as an nem. unheimliche feeling. As Lacan states, anxiety is the only »affect that does not deceive« – and as such, it signals that something is fundamentally wrong with our being, including in relation to time. We investigate whether anxiety is connected to our perception of time – to the subject’s inability to be and establish themselves within their own time, a time that not only passes but increasingly chases us, becoming ever more scarce for the subject. The subject's task is to realize itself within the given time, even though it already struggles to situate itself in its own time– even within the framework of so-called »end times«, which hinder the imagining of the future, demand ethical existence (with tomorow in mind), and at the same time command that we must enjoy the present day.
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