The chronological time provided by our consciousness is distorted in many ways under the influence of the unconscious. Freud summarised these forms of distortion under the term »timelessness« of the unconscious. Just like the concept of time, the concept of space in our consciousness also comes under pressure from the influence of the unconscious. The ego is then no longer able to clearly distinguish between what is inside and what is outside. Freud linked this problem closely to the hallucinatory nature of the unconscious. A clinical example illustrates how this double distortion of space-time consciousness manifests itself in an anxiety disorder.

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