Rings of Tolls, para 36, Supplementary B1 to: On the Phenomenology of the Consciousness of Internal Time

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Rings of Tolls

Edmund Husserl

On the Phenomenology of the Consciousness of Internal Time

B: Supplementary Texts

I "On the Introduction of the Essential Distinction between 'Fresh' Memory and 'Full' Recollection and about the Change in Content and Differences in Apprehension in the Consciousness of Time"

No. 4.

Mediation

Perception, Memory, and Expectation

Paragraph 36

Husserl turns now to memory.

Toll. The bell clangs. It’s the second ring. The previous toll still remembered fresh. It’s two o’clock. We recall the first clang. Then we recall it again, and again, and again. Despite this plurality of recollections, we recall but one toll.

Memory. For example, I have an altogether fresh memory: one stroke of the hour has just died away and a new one sounds; the past stroke [is] still in consciousness as fading away. I repeat it; a new memorial representation [arises]. I repeat it several times; therefore several memories [arise] (which themselves are characterized as temporally distinct), all directed towards the same past event. The past event exits only once; the acts are several. Identification of the past being in a plurality of acts. (159a)

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Husserl, Edmund. On the Phenomenology of the Consciousness of Internal Time (1893-1917).Vol 4 ofEdmund Husserl: Collected Works. Ed. Rudolf Bernet. Trans. John Barnett Brough.Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991.