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`History Balancing the Scales'

Postmodernism has challenged previous philosophical ideas about time and subjectivity by questioning the possibility of direct access to a present that had, hitherto, grounded notions of knowledge and experience. This article, through an investigation of the work of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, explores the ways in which postmodern accounts of time provide the possibility of a radically different conception of the subject's experience of the world.