Abstract

In Edmund Husserl’s philosophy, experience is the result of some intentional processes that stand on the platform of hyletic givenness. These processes are globally called “constitution” and are articulated in lower and higher levels according to their grade of complication. This paper focuses on the lowest level of constitution, i.e. time consciousness, as resulted from Husserl’s 1817–18 manuscripts and written in the Bernau mountain resort. It argues for the existence of a so-called originary stream of time consciousness, which has a specific role in the order of constitution, and it states that its constitutional-intentional status is highly instable