Georges Perec’s Zeit-Raum: Creating a Space of Remembrance

This paper will discuss Georges Perec’s memoir of his analysis with Jean-Bertrand Pontalis focusing mainly on the concept of space, and thus tying into Dr. Tzur Mahalel’s interest in the basic concepts of space and time in relation to psychoanalysis and literature. In this paper she offers a discussion of the significance and elusiveness of space in psychic development by using ideas from Freud and Walter Benjamin.