Temporal experience.

To many Freudians the time sense is the result of frustrations, but the extensive literature (159 titles) is not so simple. A fundamental distinction is that between time perception and time perspective. The latter is again variously conceived by many authors; some add time orientation. The authors effectively survey and criticise the literature. The time concept is said to be fully developed only at the age 13. "The distinction between filled and unfilled time may be in the mind of the E rather than in the S." Little children think of the future rather than of the past. But 1 writer asserts that the past is more significant to them. The authors conclude that the precise relationship between perception and perspective is in need of empirical and experimental underpinning. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)