Eugène Minkowski’s Lived Time articulates a phenomenology of time that is as inspired by the philosophical writings of Henri Bergson and Edmund Husserl as it is by the psychiatric descriptions of Eugen Bleuler. After providing a phenomenological description of the experience of time in normal life, Minkowski considers a number of mental illnesses, including schizophrenia, manic depression, and dementia, and he attempts to show that these pathological cases can be characterized in terms of a distortion of lived time and space.

First published in French in 1933 as Le temps vécu, this edition of this classic work of phenomenological psychiatry and psychopathology includes a new foreword by Dan Zahavi that presents some of Minkowski’s main ideas and discusses his contemporary relevance.

EUGÈNE MINKOWSKI (1885–1972) was a French psychiatrist known for his incorporation of phenomenology into psychopathology. He was the author of numerous articles and seven books, including La schizophrénie: Psychopathologie des schizoïdes et des schizophrènes (Schizophrenia: The Psychopathology of Schizoids and Schizophrenics) and Traité de psychopathologie (Treatise on Psychopathology).

DAN ZAHAVI is a professor of philosophy and the director of the Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen. He is the author of more than eight books, including Self-Awareness and Alterity: A Phenomenological Investigation, Subjectivity and Selfhood: Investigating the First-Person Perspective, Self and Other: Exploring Subjectivity, Empathy, and Shame, and Husserl’s Legacy.