Just as, as we have seen, when I walk round an object, I am not presented with a succession of perspective views which I subsequently co ordinate thanks to the idea of one single ﬂat projection, there being merely a certain amount of 'shift' in the thing which, in itself, is journeying through time, so I am not myself a succession of 'psychic' acts, nor for that matter a nuclear I who bring them together into a synthetic unity, but one single experience inseparable from itself, one single 'living cohesion', one single temporality which is engaged, from birth, in making itself progressively explicit, and in confirming that cohesion in each successive present.