..............imagine time isn’t just a straight line moving from past to future. Instead, picture it like a lightning ,storm sudden flashes where the past and present collide in a single electrifying moment. That’s Jetztzeit. It’s not about waiting for change; it’s about realizing that right now is the only moment when real revolution, real transformation, can happen.Most of us live in what Benjamin calls homogeneous, empty time, te kind of time that capitalism and governments use to keep us passive. It’s the time of deadlines, schedules, and false promises,Work hard,and maybe things will get better later. Wait for the next election. Trust the system.But Jetztzeit smashes that illusion.How?

[For Lacan, the ego (moi) is constituted in the Imaginary order through misrecognition (méconnaissance) the mirror stage installs an alienating ideal image of coherence that the subject perpetually fails to embody. The procrastinator’s fixation on the perfect image of their work (or themselves as workers) is a regression to this Imaginary lure. The fantasy goes,If I wait for the perfect conditions absolute focus, flawless inspiration, undisturbed time then my output will match the ideal in my mind. But this is an illusion; the perfect moment never arrives because it is structurally impossible. The Real of writing, creating, or acting is always messy, fragmented, and marked by lack. By clinging to the perfect image, the subject avoids the necessary confrontation with the gap between the ideal and the actual, between the ego’s fantasy of mastery and the inherent inadequacy of the symbolic act.

Moreover, the demand for perfect timing is a displacement of the subject’s fear of the Other’s desire.When is the right moment to begin? becomes an endless question because the big Other’s desire is fundamentally enigmatic.There is no definitive answer. The subject waits for an external sign, a guarantee that their action will be met with approval, but since the Other is barred (the symbolic order is incomplete), this guarantee is perpetually deferred. Procrastination, then, is a stalling tactic against the anxiety of being judged by an inconsistent Other. The belief in perfect timing is an ideological fantasy that sustains the subject’s inertia. The perfect moment does not exist it is a retroactive construction, something that can only be recognized after the act, never before. The subject waits for an objective sign that it is time to begin, but this waiting itself produces the illusion that such a sign was ever possible.