Abstract
The usual metaphor for time is a flow. Edmund Husserl, in describing
experience of our inner temporality, uses the term often: Fluss. In the final
three decades of his life (1900s to 1930s), he gives us a well-articulated
theory of time, especially the experience of its ongoingness and of our-
selves in the processing of time. He refers to this latter, our immanent
temporality, as a "flux" or flow and thus calls up the image of the river
moving along with its contents comprised in that flowing, gaining their
fluent qualities from it. Yet Husserl's theory is not limited to a mechanistic
understanding of flow as pure series, but in fact incorporates both a serial-
ized aspect and a decentering, highly complex aspect of inner time-con-
sciousness. The theory, then, requires a new metaphor, a re-mapping from
serialistic diagrams to more dynamic ones. The challenge lies not only in
achieving this re-mapping, but in showing the relation of dynamic diagrams
to the serialistic ones that are still vital to the full descriptions of inner time-
consciousness.