xii The distinction he makes between retention and recollection, on the one hand, and protention and expectation,
on the other, contributes much to our understanding of how the present spans what is past and what is future, and how presence
includes absence.
p.195 The constituted act, built from consciousness of the now and retentional consciousness, is adequate
perception of the temporal object. This object must include temporal distinctions, and temporal distinctions are constituted
precisely in such acts - in primal consciousness, retention, and protention.
p.195 primary expectation... protention
p.223 There is a constant process of anticipation, of preunderstanding.
p.224 We must understand the structure of interconnections for every appearance as well as the structure
that unites all series of appearances.
p.224 In every progression of external perceiving, the protention has the shape of continuous anticipations
that become fulfilled. That is to say, out of the indicative systems of the horizons, certain indicative lines are continually
being actualized as expectations
p.294 The retaining-in-grasp of the entire multiplicity of variations as the foundation of essential
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