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Rosine Perelberg's Time, Space and Phantasy has an appropriate title in that it explores fundamental psychoanalytical tenets of how a child learns of time and space, and the hallucinatory wishes that arise when an absence has been noted. Perelberg comes to psychoanalysis from social anthropology and utilizes her earlier training with a point of view that brings with it an interesting cultural bent. Indeed, 2 of the 11 chapters in this book (chapters 1 and 9) deal with anthropological phenomena and phantasies around time and space, and chapter 7 examines these issues through the novelis-tic study of the great Latin American author Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Chapter 2 of this well-written and thoughtful psychoanalytic book deals with the central theme that governs Perelberg's thinking throughout this work. The concept of the après coup is examined extensively in a work that alternates between theoretical-clinical concepts such as dreams, identification, and identity (chapters 3, 5, and 7) and writing of a totally clinical nature (chapters 4, 6, and 8). Before examining Perelberg's considerations around après coup, it is worth noting that the clinical material