Diagrams of Time and Syntaxes of Consciousness: A Contribution to the Phenomenology of Visualization

The linear representation of time became undoubtedly a dominant representation of what is considered as a fundamental dimension of any natural “external” phenomena as well as lived experiences. It enters into a considerable number of graphic representations and, under the form of the coordinate system, it has provided physics with the indispensable tool for a fine mathematisation of physical processes in their rich diversity and still seems necessary to understand its applicability. In what follows, we will address three problems: 1. The historical and scientific significance of phenomenology from the point of view of the diagram of time. 2.Phenomenological elucidation of the use of diagrams in science, because there is a phenomenology of diagrams of knowledge, the most radical form of which will consist in a self-elucidation of the use of diagrams in phenomenology. 3.Elucidation of why and how symbolisation and diagrammatisation are required and call each other in the phenomenology of time in particular, description in reflection, 4.Wewill thus be able to approach the specific study of the way in which diagrams of time have functioned in phenomenology between the most fertile period on the subject, i.e. between the lessons of 1905 known as the Lessons on the Intimate Consciousness of Time and the said Bernau Manuscripts of the years 1917–1918.