Abstract

In thc traditions of phenomenological psychiatry it is not seldom stated that mclancholia and mania involve some disturbance of time consciousness. For example, T. Fuchs has recently argued that mclzmcholics suffer from 21 "dcsynchronization" of personal and collective time} This poster discusses from em 2malytical—philosophical point 0f view what thc French psychiatrist Henri Ey says about time consciousness in mania and mclancholia, concentrating OH thc question, "Which concept of 'conscious11css' is implied by his position? Henri Ey (1900-1977) was and is El very influential Hgurc in French psychiatry? Hc wrote important textbooks in clinical psychiat1"y° and several theoretical works where hc advanced his "01·g2m0—dynamic" View 0f thc mi11d—brai11. His magnus opus is thc twovolumc treatise about hallucinations that was published four years before his death? Ey was also very well vcrscd in contemporary philosophical thought and made interesting contributions t0 thc philosophy of mind, especially in La Conscience (1963)’, thc sccond edition 0f which was translated t0 English in 1978 as Consciousness? The present poster draws heavily O1'1tl’1€ formulations in Consciousness