This chapter takes an oblique approach to whiteness. There is good reason for this: when I set out on the study that would become this chapter I was focused on the theme of unconscious/psychic temporalities, not on whiteness as such. It was in surveying the existing literature in the field—that is, literature on the temporal dimensions of socio-political existence in the (post)apartheid era—that I was obliged to explore a series of analyses of temporalities of fixation, repetition, and nostalgia as they manifest in the post-apartheid era. I introduce an additional text collected as part of my work with the Apartheid Archive Research Group, in which a white boy discovers evidence suggestive of an act of racist violence committed by his father. Here themes of white anxiety, inter-generational guilt and the displaced fear of retribution came to the fore.