Contents 1. Introduction 2. Present - describes the ageing condition: an intensification of evaluative processes, the need for self-definition in contemporary postmodern society, temporal constraints and bodily decline hinders construction of meaning, the possibility of generating fresh meaning in retrospection 3. Past a) Blank spaces - remembering and forgetting, culpability in events/mistakes that come to light b) Spots of Time - see below J c) Nostalgia - yearning to return to earlier