In Beckettt a character looks at his watch and utters “Time has stopped” (1989, 36), a cosmic joke in the context of this play in which stasis and repetitive days make it hard to discern progression or the change that signals the passing of time. In Beckett’s novels, however, the phenomenology of apparently disordered time perceptions is rendered more richly, exploring the interconnectedness of time and space perception
Beckett calls “the fact of ‘me-here-now’ in the life of the individual” (274), an awareness of self-presence that schizophrenia attacks. The link Beckett draws between these formal disruptions and the condition of indifference, in particular, mirrors in an intriguing fashion the links drawn in schizophrenia research between (negative) anhedonia and both cognitive disorganization and perceptual disturbance. These may not be clinical insights, but they are imaginative possibilities that both clinician and scholar could productively entertain.
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Beckett calls “the fact of ‘me-here-now’ in the life of the individual” (274), an awareness of self-presence that schizophrenia attacks. The link Beckett draws between these formal disruptions and the condition of indifference, in particular, mirrors in an intriguing fashion the links drawn in schizophrenia research between (negative) anhedonia and both cognitive disorganization and perceptual disturbance. These may not be clinical insights, but they are imaginative possibilities that both clinician and scholar could productively entertain.
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