‘Between-time stories’: waiting, war and the temporalities of care

• Published in: Medical humanities Vol. 46; no. 2; pp. 96 - 106
• Main Author: Salisbury, Laura
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States BMJ Publishing Group LTD 01.06.2020; BMJ Publishing Group
• Subjects: 20th century; Annihilation; Anxiety; Forecasting; History, 20th Century; Humanities - history; Humans; Literature - history; London; Modernity; Novels; Original Research; Psychoanalysis; Psychoanalysis - history; Psychoanalytic Theory; Time; Time Perception; War Exposure - history; World War I; World War II; London; Africa; literature and medicine; psychiatry; psychoanalysis; medical humanities

This article analyses how World War II shifted and contained embodied experiences of waiting in relation to broader ideas of lived time in modernity. The trench warfare of World War I has often been imagined as a limit experience of anxious waiting, but World War II produced compelling accounts of e...