The productive character of daydreaming: a phenomenological study

Abstract

This article seeks to discuss what one can understand about the productive character of consciousness from a phenomenological point of view, a topic that will be explored in relation to presentifications. First, I will reconstruct two models Husserl used in his attempts to capture what is specific to presentification (the pictorial model and the reproduction of impressions model). Then, I will broaden the results obtained through the second model by systematizing three associative forms which link presentified contents in the daydreaming experience (resemblance, contiguity, and evocativeness).