Perception of Time and Planning Horizon in Identity Crisis Periods

The work consists of two parts and has the goal to review temporality concept and time phenomenon in psychoanalysis in theoretical part and to give examples that illustrate psychoanalytical approach to temporality, time perception and planning horizon in identity crisis periods in psychodynamic coaching in second implementation part. The first part of the work gives temporality review in psychoanalysis – past, present and future concepts and their dynamic relationship with the Unconscious, retrospective & prospective time, «Nachtraglichkeit» и «Apres-coup», time in ontogeny, time in psychoanalytic session, psychopathology of everyday time experience. In the second part, there are client cases analysis with examples of psychoanalytic approach to time as psychodynamic dimension, time perception and relation to time as result of intrapsychic conflict in place during the identity crisis. The hypothesis was confirmed that the long-term cognitive planning horizon is severely affected during the identity crisis times accompanied by loss of meaning and points of reference, as psychic energy is reoriented towards the search of the new ones. Time perception and planning horizon are affected by identity crisis – the last is narrowed to the state it becomes predictable or becomes vague and theoretically abstract with little connection to the present state.