Ideas toward a Phenomenology of Interruptions by Bassiri Cameron;

Author:Bassiri, Cameron;
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012-07-17T16:00:00+00:00

Retentional consciousness bears within itself protentions and outlines the future. The protention of the coming tones is implied by the retention of past tones. The stream, therefore, implies itself, contains its own future within itself implicitly.

Protentions, as I have shown, are motivated by retentions and therefore intend their content on the basis of past retentions.[11] Their orientation toward the future is established by the retentions that possess them implicitly. However, this does not exhaust the character of protention, of the orientation toward, and givenness of, the future. Let us begin by providing an analysis of protention through understanding its relation to the coming “nows” of consciousness, that is, by looking into the “other side” of what I discussed earlier concerning retention. Retentional consciousness holds onto the immediately elapsed Urpräsentation and informs the future. The consciousness of the future lies within the present. Protention is oriented toward the future in a variety of ways. First, and as discussed briefly thus far, protention intends the immediately coming tone of a melody. In the experience of listening to a melody, after an A has elapsed, the coming tone B lies within the immanence of the horizon of the immediate future. Protention, in this case, is directed to what will immediately follow what has itself elapsed, in this case, the tone just heard. However, it is heard in a very particular manner. As the immediately elapsed Urpräsentation maintained a form of immanence in moving into the past and taking on an additional form of transcendence, so here, protention too has a form of immanence proper to it. It forms a “steigernden Künftigkeitsgrad” (Husserl 2001a, 41). Within the context of immediately coming protentions, which as implicated by near retentions are near protentions, the coming Urpräsentation is given as immanent to the present experience. Protentional consciousness, in extending beyond the present into the future, and in giving intentional consciousness a fundamental transcendence with regard to which it is always ahead of itself in the future, contains an immanence of its own. In this case, it is the immanence of the immediately coming tone. It is “on the other side” of the present, the reverse of retention, in that it contains a content that is not yet but is “next to” the tone elapsing and the tone that has just elapsed and is still being held in retention. Protention is directed “nicht nur auf den nächsten Punkt” but also towards the coming and past “Pünkte” (Husserl 2001a, 8).

However, the structures of immanence and transcendence proper to protention have a character and tendency which are the opposite of those of retention. First, whereas the movement within retention is from immanence to transcendence, from wakefulness to sleep, with protention the movement is from transcendence to immanence, from sleep to wakefulness, and again to sleep. Protention, it follows, has the peculiar dual character of stretching itself out toward what is coming toward it and which will be realized in the present. Its transcendence into the future is a reaching toward what is to come.

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