ABSTRACT
The aim of the present article is to determine the meaning of the concept of the individual within the framework of Husserl’s philosophy and to investigate the structure of the experience of individuals. Husserl’s formal-ontological, epistemological, and transcendental analyses concerning the individual and individuation is discussed, and light is shed on the relationship among them. It is shown how an encompassing theory of individuation embraces these three domains and grounded upon a relational and process oriented account of experience. The transcendental analyses of individuation uncover the ultimate source of individuation in the temporal stream of consciousness. The stream of consciousness is interpreted as a unitary, self-individuating, and irreversible process. Irreversibility, thus, emerges as the key concept for understanding the phenomenology of individuation.
