SOME REMARKS ON REMEMBERING. A PHENOMENOLOGICAL SURVEY (Z fenomenologii przypomnienia)

The paper contains a descriptive analysis of an essential component of the stream of consciousness: remembering, a feature which is indispensable not only in our everyday life but also in eidetic phenomenological research. A serious doubt arises, however, as to the essential veracity of our memory of past events. It seems that our confidence in the reality of what comes back to our memory always depends on a broader mental context and cannot be definitive. This is an important obstacle in obtaining an apodictic, unmistakable insight into the essence of conscious phenomena. Thus, the very possibility of eidetic phenomenology seems to be endangered.