ABSTRACT
This chapter specifies the outset that people are dealing with a double phenomenon to ensure the accuracy of the investigation into anticipation. Anticipation is the gesture of a consciousness that ensures the coherence and sense of its present experience by relating this experience to a pre-experience of what is not yet here but realizes what is already here. The two aspects of the double phenomenon are evidently related in that they reveal the author's that the only present is a living present, because it shelters a quasi-experience of the future, because its signification is suspended to a future that is pre-given in the here and now. The logic of anticipation is antithetical of that of enjoyment: if people enjoy only the pre-appearance of the future in the present, they prove that the proper phenomenality of anticipation eludes them. A consciousness that would not anticipate is evidently an unthinkable consciousness.
