Proceedings, Oxford, UK (2002) - World Federation of Music Therapy

experiences, such as prayer, where the object of narration proves to be or
reflects a “totality” which the narrator can identify himself with. We
could speak, referring to the different forms of “inhabiting” this time
dimension and in accordance with Jung’s meaning of the term, of “Self -
narrations”. In this time dimension the individual takes care of his
conscious-intentional structure, of his own way of opening to the world,
that is to say of his style of opening to sense. Inside ritual temporality, the
prevailing attitude of conscience is “praesentatio”.
Healthy daily temporality
In this case style, which, through its integrity, ensures experience its
unity of sense, proposes to narrate contents, events, facts and relations;
these, when invested with (or enlightened by) the “epiphany of sense”
testified to by the style itself, reveal themselves in their “significance”.
For example, the events of a literary narration, or of the story of a
community’s vicissitudes, reveal, when described with unity and style
coherence, their web of sense, their becoming “history”. In healthy daily
temporality the individual experiences his being “memory” or “project”,
and the related attitudes of conscience: “retentio” and “protentio”.
In the first kind of temporality we have described, the lived experience
shows an ecstatic character, while the second one reveals a good level of
vital contact with reality 74 .
One could say that, within a non psychopathological condition, the ritual
temporality situations enter into the flowing of daily time nearly almost
74. See E. Minkowsky (1927) La schizophrénie, Paris; (1998) La shizofrenia,
Torino, Einaudi
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