Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Still, the once overwhelming problems of consciousness, assuming the case to have been more or less extensively stated, have dwindled down to dealing with a few simple facts. The foremost of these being that time or durée cannot be represented in the consciousness as anything else but in the dimensions proper to imagery, in learning to look at all, we look back, and pretending to look forward, anticipate. This obviously we cannot cease to do. All conscious acts are possible as such by the long habit of anticipation of what is considered the outcome (object), lying somewhere within the range of possible outcomes. Acts are always attended by tension (spannung) in regards to the outcome. Several acts are coordinated by a plan of action. The execution of the plan is attended by a proportionately increased amount of tension. The imagery places the acts of a plan in relation to the outcome, as the imagery changes under the pressures of modulation as consciouness catches up with what has happened, takes it for what is happening, reflects durée. The repressive and tiresome nature of consciousness, the source of tension, the desire to bring no more and certainly no less into the next moment as what went in, the limits placed on experience perhaps deter from too much planning...

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