Le problème phénoménologique de l’oubli. L’expérience spirituelle chez le dernier Merleau-Ponty
The phenomenological Problem of Forgetting. Spiritual Experience in the last Merleau-Ponty

Summary/Abstract: The paper seeks to reconstruct transcendental phenomenology building upon Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s work The Visible and the Invisible. The author makes the remark that such an endeavor presupposes, among other things, the reevaluation of both the psychoanalytic hypothesis of the unconscious as well as of the main operation through which the unconscious can be analyzed, namely the famous Freudian operation of après coup. In this thematic context, Merleau-Ponty becomes interested in the new type of phenomena that occur in the intervals between different phases of our apperception as an effect of a particular type of trans-eidetic “serpentine” which represent a new version of the Husserlian zigzag. The architectural problem of resonance and transfer (Übergang) thus becomes a central one. The paper argues that Merleau-Ponty goes beyond the inter-subjective context of the fifth Cartesian Meditation, thus opening the horizon of a secondary experience that arises in the very discontinuity of apperceptive time redefined as forgetting. The paper concludes that the shift analyzed by Merleau-Ponty indicates a very particular “synthesis” à double fond without a determined schematism.

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