Zeitstruktur und Schizophrenie

Geometry of time and Dimensionality of Space

“…3 These examples suffice to see that a profound connection between the global structure of time dimension and the number, as well as individual character, of spatial coordinates is an essential element of the structure of our Cremonian pencil-space-times. It is this property that finds its most distinguished and almost ubiquitous manifestations in the already-mentioned realm of the psychopathology of time and space [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][21][22][23]. However, from what we found above it stems that this must also be a feature pertaining to the structure of the physical universe, although in this case its traits are obviously of a much subtler nature, being essentially embodied in a possible delicate non-equivalence among the spatial dimensions themselves (compare the right-hand sides of Figures 2 and 3).…”

“…states of consciousness [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]. Over the years, a vast body of literature has accumulated on the topic (see references in [21][22][23]) so that there can already be seen a definite pattern in the qualitative structure of these pathological space-time constructs.…”

Chronophrenia – A New Syndrome in Functional Psychoses

“…The change in mellontic structure, the shrinking o f'negative time' [Schaltenbrand, 1963] can serve as a basis for philosophical and anthropological interpretation of her life, for clarification of her way of life, by focusing on a kind of secu larized Platonic 'anamnesis'. We shall not discuss either this or the depth psychology interpretation, e.g., dealing with repetition [Mitscherlich, 1963], It should be stressed from the psychopathological viewpoint that the characteristic time experience disorders described in schizophrenics [Fischer, 1929;Sattes, 1953] were absent in Barbara, just as were other pathognostic symptoms of schizophrenia. Es sentially no harm was caused either to the vital contact with reality, the 'synchronisme vécu' described by Minkowski [1933], How ever, the combination of the reduplication experience based on mental automatism (which can be described as mnemic libera tion in its fully fledged form) together with euphoria (which is Barbara' s predominant mood, with the exception of the period fol lowing her father's death), raises the hypoth esis of a kinship to Korsakow's syndrome, as a possible pathophysiological explanation.…”

Über abnormes Zeiterleben bei einer Schizophrenen

“…In der echten E k sta se geschieht nach F. Fischer [6] eine A ufhebung oder aber eine S teigerung der S tru k tu re n von R aum und Z eit: « ...d ie m ystischen E rlebnisse, welche zu schizo phrenen S törungen eine phänom enale V e rw an d tsch a ft zeigen, b rin gen nirgends das E rscheinen einer neuen Z e itstru k tu r, sondern im m er nur ein Auslöschen der Z eit sa m t dem R aum oder ab er eine Steigerung aller G egebenheiten, wobei die Z eit n ich t ausgeschlossen bleibt». Der Z u stan d der E k stase, d er «R aserei», des «A ußer-sichSeins», h at eine tiefe B eziehung zum Sein und W erden in der Zeit.…”