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As the author states in her acknowledgements, this book is the outcome of a journey which has lasted over her professional life-time. Being both a social anthropologist and a psychoanalyst, she seeks to integrate the anthropological and the psychoanalytical outlooks to deepen our understanding of how we can come to know someone else's subjectivity. This is, of course, no easy task but it is one which all psychoanalytic practitioners have to consider. To do it, we need all the help we can get! This is because if psychoanalysis is resolutely to take its place in making a self-confident contribution to the understanding of human experience, then the questions she raises in this book must be addressed.
Her choice of title perhaps reflects her ambition. These days, our personal conceptions of time and space have undoubtedly been affected by advances in the natural sciences. The consistent and reliable measurement of these dimensions of the physical world has permitted an objectivity and technological advance that have brought many benefits unimaginable even two centuries ago. But, this increasing knowledge has brought challenges that we would probably regard as beyond the conception of other species with