Abstract EN:

"Stress", "overwork", "asthenia", "nervous tension", etc. , these words that are nowadays growing in number in the medias are the signs of a major problem of our civilization, that psychiatry and psychopathology appoint in an alarming way: the contemporary man is the subject of a suffering, which comes into a general use as tiredness and depression. In the center of these pathologies appears the question of the time relation to oneself. Bombarded with the enterprise requirements of performance optimization, on which the rise and the development of technoscience and of its industry rely, the self is bustled about earning time. What do these pathologies of time mean, those wich increase with the development of modern western civilizations? What happens, in the order of such a world, of the work of all those who "loose their time": artists, thinkers, searchers…? In front of the tiredness to be the self, the question of therapeutic: the work of self on self, according to its tempo, whose ancient ontic model is the worry of the self. This work that psychoanalysis could have named perlaboration involves a temporality which is irreducible to the diachrony of acceleration. It reminds that the self is constitutively and originally opened to an unprogrammable alterity, which alterity could not be contained in the equation of a gain. Confronted to its own undetermination, the self is the place of one depressivity, which is at the same time, under the condition of an unconditional welcome of the other stranger inside, the ability by which the self constitutes itself, and one research is spread  according to its unpredictability, its freedom and its lost time.