Can I anticipate myself?

self-affection and temporality

Natalie Depraz

pp. 83-97

in: Dan Zahavi (ed), Self-awareness, temporality, and alterity, Deventer, Kluwer, 1998

Abstract

It is a commonly shared opinion among phenomenologists that temporality is a constitutive part of subjectivity. As living subjects, we are bound to time, but we are able, as Refslecting subjects, to alter or to change this external, objective time into an immanent, lived one.