This paper inquires into time, unreality, and disembodiment. These topics are tackled in Anna Kavan's work –a twentieth-century English writer–, whose novels and tales have elements for a psychoanalytic approach of such topics. It is found out that, in the author's work, they appear in relation to the limit of the symbolic and its insufficiency. In this sense, they appear as a silent enigma for the subject since they exceed the field of language.