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Joel Pearl teaches philosophy at the Academic College of Communication, Rishon LeZion, Israel; he is also a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and has been a candidate member at the Tel-Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. His research and publications, of which the volume under review is a prime example, have focused on phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and their intersection. A Question of Time: Freud in the Light of Heidegger's Temporality is a magnificent piece of interdisciplinary scholarship, one that wanned my own post-Cartesian psychoanalytic heart.
Like Binswanger (1946) and Boss (1963) before him, Pearl proceeds from the “top down”—that is, he begins with the philosophical presuppositions implicit in Freudian theory and with the fundamental existential structures delineated by Heidegger, and then goes on to show how the latter can (and should) transform psychoanalysis. Such an approach contrasts with one, such as my own (Stolorow 2011), that proceeds from the “bottom up”—that begins with clinical phenomena and an effort to rethink the psychoanalytic process phenomenologically and then finds philosophical support for this endeavor in Heidegger's existential analytic.