ABSTRACT
The foundation of Marcel Proust's vision was the meaningful reflexivity between a sensual apprehension and its vital contiguity with an enlivened memory. Proust's freedom onto the future was provided by the same intellectual construct that informed Henri Bergson's idea of duration as a heterogeneous temporal unity. Heidegger and Bergson were dedicated to outlining the general conditions which make an examination of the self, by the self, possible in the first place. Kristeva concludes that Proust, unlike Bergson, joined objective, sequential time with subjective duration in order to serve his craft. Proust was thus able to manipulate his psyche to create a bridge between his sensual and immediate presence and the persistence of the past. Kristeva detected stylistic elements of the mystic, the scholar, and the philosopher in Proust, but all of these voices try to control experience in one way or another.
