Psychology and life
Psychology and life

Summary/Abstract: Thus the anthology of Henri Bergson (1957), conducted by Gilles Deleuze, starts, with this text of ‘L’évolution creatrice’, direct and full of content. And it follows: “(...) I say, and rightly so, that I change, but the change seems to reside in the passage from one state to the next state: for each state, considered separately, I believe that is still what it was all the time that it occurred. However, a slight effort of attention would reveal me that there is no affection, representation or volition which is not modified at all times; if a state of the soul cease to vary, its duration would cease to pass. (...) But it is comfortable not pay attention to this continuous change, and noticing only when it grows enough to print a new attitude to the body, and a new direction to attention. Just then, we find that we have changed state. The truth is that we are constantly changing, and that the state itself is already a change. (...) Because we close our eyes to the unceasing variation of every psychological state, we are obliged, when the variation has become so significant that requires our attention, talking as if a new state had been juxtaposed to precedent.

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