Sykes, John and Fotia Sykes, Francesca and Froese, Tom
(2025)
Affect And Time: On The Worldly Origins Of Schizophrenic Vulnerability.
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Abstract
Prominent phenomenological accounts of schizophrenia have long implicated disturbances in temporality as a central characteristic of the disorder (Minkowski, 1923; Stanghellini et al., 2016; Martin et al., 2019). Early clinical phenomenologists such as Minkowski posited that schizophrenia is defined by a fundamental alteration to the patient’s temporal experience, describing phenomena such as a “blocked future” and “fragmented time” that disrupts continuity between past, present, and future. Minkowski's notion of trouble générateur highlighted the incapacity to resonate with reality, marking a profound disconnect from shared temporal and existential structures. This view remains influential in contemporary research where scholars continue to explore temporal disintegration as a core feature of schizophrenia (Fuchs, 2010; Stanghellini et al., 2016). However, the more fundamental nature of this temporal disintegration has begun to be reinterpreted in clinical phenomenology.
In this chapter, we briefly assess this ongoing reinterpretation (Section 1), revisit pertinent phenomenological resources provided by Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty on time and affect (Section 2) and apply these ideas to the intersection between affective temporality and schizophrenia in its prodromal stage (Section 3) and bodily (Section 4) and intersubjective dimensions (Section 5). Finally, we examine the paradigm case of ‘mission delusions’, a symptom characterised by an affective-temporal rupture between self and world which incorporates all these themes (Section 6).
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