Servant, Benoît
Interminable impatience, terminable impatience
- 2018.
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For the author, impatience may be a sign of the indefinite postponement of satisfaction caused by an unconscious conflict arising from deficient derive imbrication, which maintains desire and its prohibition at one and the same time: this is interminable impatience. Terminable patience makes it possible to free oneself from perverse domination. These two situations are illustrated by clinical vignettes and the fictional stories of Henry James.