Three issues of interest to psychoanalysis—the experience of time, the functions of memory, and the mourning process—are focused on. Case vignettes from two chronically ill patients are given to illustrate the complex intertwining of these three processes as the patients emerged from psychotic states and attempted to re-establish themselves in their lives. Specifically, it is postulated that, in psychosis, because certain ego functions are interfered with and because drive-organized memory systems are cathected at the expense of other systems, the alteration of memory necessary for the subjective experience of time-flow does not occur. This later on leads to an incongruous

situation where the recovering patient's internalized self and object representations do not match with external reality, and a mourning process may result.