The Money Game
Notes On Fantasies of Temporal Recovery and Preknowledge
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7750083 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas J Cottle (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1969 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 65 |
| Pages | 110-134 |
| Publication date | 1969-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Diogenes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0392-1921 • E-ISSN: 1467-7695 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/039219216901706506 |
| OpenAlex | W2050527054 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Temporal recovery and prescience or preknowldge clearly belong to the realm of imagined time, for they brazenly threaten to disobey the unidirectional structure of successive or linear time. It goes without saying that the acts of fantasizing recovery or preknowledge belong to what becomes an expanded sense of nowness. Fantasizing trascends mere temporal imagining, for the processes of recall and expectation are transformed and accelerated into momentary wish fulfillment. Figuratively speaking, fantasizing and imagining may be thought of as running in opposite directions along the same spatial plane. Apparently restrained by the objective mold of chronological succession, imagining in the form of recall returns the experience to the present while fantasy of recovery “succeeds” in “transporting” us to the “time” of the original experience. Expectation on the other hand, “projects” outward our feelings, hopes, and dreams as bolts of content to fill the emptiness of future while fantasies of preknowledge barely “succeed” in bringing to us, through subjective prematureness, an elaborated interpretation of a now replete future
| Citations per year | 0.05 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1969 - 1973 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |