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[Jane Buus Sørensen]

I'm looking for theoretical literature on this problem: you live in a certain time, but very often refer to another time.
Yours sincerely
Jane Buus Sørensen

[Clare O'Farrell]

Hi Jane, Could you explain this a bit more clearly with perhaps an example of what you mean? Do you mean nostalgia?

[Jane Buus Sørensen]

My students imagine that they live in a hunter society, but they don´t, they have no relations to it, even it is very importent in their minds.
JAne

[Agnes Bosanquet]

Jane, the first thing I thought of was Elizabeth Grosz's The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution and the Untimely. If not quite what you are interested in, it may point you in the direction of something more specific.

[Jane Buus Sørensen]

Thank you so much, and I will look into it, the book sounds facinating, even I must admit that I doubt that it will be a really "hit on the nail".
thank you Jane

[Jane Bone]

Hi Jane
Your question was interesting in the context of New Zealand where there are understandings from the Maori world of the past always being in front of us. From my perspective, as I grapple with this thought, I wonder if this explains how the way I think of myself from my past is still current and still constructs my present and the future that is behind me. I have only had this explained in conversation and am not sure if it is relevant to you.
Also what you have said has echoes of Jungian theory and archetypes. I am not being v. specific, just found your query interesting and will follow up Agnes' book recommendation.

[Jane Buus Sørensen]

I´ve got a new title if anyone should be interested::
Lilies of the field - Marginal people who live for the moment" byf Sophie Day m. fl.
I have not got the possibility to read the book yet, things take time.
Jane

[Jane Buus Sørensen]

well, I hope that the work of James and Mills will help.
Yours sincerely
jane