SCHIZOPHRENIC IMPATIENCE

In the meeting with the patient and in the perspective of symptoms as attempt to establish an existence, seeing schizophrenia as a particula r form of temporality, an essential form of existential impatience, is perceiving a particular attitude to time, a ''now'' which is painful and beyond approach, which locates an essential moment in individualis ation, its beginning. Symptoms of impatience reflect the permanence of excessive efforts towards individuation which unceasingly indicate de finition of self in terms of non self and particularly in terms of oth er, this designates the emergence a of relationship between self and s elf in terms of other, starting from relationship to other. The disord er of interpersonal contact signifies an incongruous insistence on the dialectic moment that the ego is. Schizophrenia distinctly underlines the two - generally linked - moments constitutive of ''being for itse lf'' for us all, an ''unending movement towards self'' difference of i dentity - and a ''continuous maintenance of mode of being'' - identity of difference. Existential impatience is not irritability of a formal order: it's existence itself which is impatient in the schizophrenic and this haste for existence, being bogged down in an ''antefestum'' ( before the feast) temporal mode, dominated by the shiver of a future u nknown, is indicative of the fundamental quest for a constitution. The schizophrenic :'ante-festum'' is both the ever-present fear of being unable to become self and a desperate effort to reach a future unknown . The impatience of existence thus draws the emblematic figure of a di sorder of measure as referential motion of the birth of all temporalis ation, in a context in which order and measure constitute the two fund amental anthropological bases of human beings, and where impatience in dicates both the removal of daily limits and the emergence of the prin ciple of all relationships, liberation from the depassement of all ord ers independent of ail propertion, of ail equilibrium and moderation.