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Psychoanalyst Maria Rita Kehl returns to the fable in Time and the Dog, and alerts us to the characteristics of contemporary temporality, which is often experienced as pure haste, without respecting the necessary time that characterizes the complete movement of understanding — the movement that is not defined by the abstract and chronological measurement of clocks.

Kronos — the ravenous god of time, a mythological titan who governs the cosmos and counts life in minutes and seconds — provides the dimension of “it’s very early” or “it’s very late”, and “right now” or “not yet”.

Kairos — the Greek word that designates the right, critical, or opportune moment — marks internal qualities of time: the difference and the substance of things in tempore. When nothing is too early or too late, it ceased to exist or has not yet occurred, because we are immersed in the idea of time as opportunity.

Festina lente, Kronos and Kairos: an unusual summary of disparate and complementary concepts that are interwoven with our fifties, and let us think with the necessary haste so that we don’t miss the beat of our time and the timeless and indispensable calm for us to discover ourselves in our infinite individuality.