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Henry DeTamble is unable to stay in time. A genetic defect causes the protagonist of Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife (2003) to unwillingly and spontaneously 'fallout of the present' - without control as to where the trip takes him or when he might be back. Henry and his wife Clare Abshire are the novel's two alternating first person narrators who also focalise the plot of their (extra-) ordinary marriage. My first thesis suggests that, in this novel, time traveling is a cultural fentasy. Having traced the term from Freud's 'Phantasie' to Lacan's 'fantasme' and Žižek's 'fantasm,' I shall focus on the question of how time traveling stages. other, more hidden, cultural fantasies. It"is this article's second contention that time traveling is characterised by precisely those contradictory qualities which define Derrida's term 'pharmakon.' Abrief introduction of this second concept will allow me to show more precisely how time traveling as a cultural fantasm operates in tackling issues crucial to the formation of the (heterosexual) couple such as negotiation of gender roles, empowerment and self-supplementation as weIl as structures of desire.

Pharmakon Zeitreise: Verborgene kulturelle Phantasmen in Audrey Niffeneggers The Time Traveler's Wife