No felt quality can distinguish memory from imagination

Evidence

Is not memory inseparable from love, which seeks to preserve what yet must pass away? Is not each stirring of fantasy engendered by desire which, in displacing the elements of what exists, transcends it without betrayal? Is not indeed the simplest perception shaped by fear of the thing perceived, or desire for it? — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 150 (#expands, via linked claim)

Thus the reflective consciousness is constituted as consciousness of duration, and hence psychic duration appears to consciousness. This psychic temporality as a projection into the in-itself of original temporality is a virtual being whose phantom flow does not cease to accompany the ekstatic temporalization of the for-itself in so far as this is apprehended by reflection. But psychic temporality disappears completely if the for-itself remains on the un-reflective level or if impure reflection purifies itself. Psychic temporality is similar in this respect to original temporality—in that it appears as a mode of being of concrete objects and not as a limit or a pre-established rule. Psychic time is only the connected bringing together of temporal objects. But its essential difference from original temporality is that it is while original temporality temporalizes itself. As such psychic time can be constituted only with the past, and the future can be only as a past which will come after the present past; that is, the empty form before-after is hypostasized, and it orders the relations between objects equally past. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 549 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Memory, fantasy, and perception all depend on the emotions — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 150; Psychic temporality is constituted by reflection, not original temporality — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 549

Broader Connections

• Memory, fantasy, and perception all depend on the emotions #expands (0.78) — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 150
• Psychic temporality is constituted by reflection, not original temporality #complicates (0.72) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 549