Andrii Ivanchuk

This article invites readers to consider specific issues in the study of consciousness that arise at the intersection of phenomenology and psychoanalysis. Although these disciplines are inherently contradictory, the article proposes expanding their scope with the help of ontological and logical concepts related to temporality and self-reflection. To this end, it presents an alternative hypothesis of the genesis of time, alongside a corresponding model of its pathological emergence in consciousness. This leads to a thought experiment designed to answer the question of what form of self-awareness would arise in conditions of alternative temporality, and what the prerequisites for moral action would be. Using Melville as an example, it also considers the consequences of such incorrect hybrid self-reflection. The article reinterprets well-known phenomenological and psychoanalytic concepts to present a hypothesis about the complex and paradoxical transcendental preconditions of thinking, existence and self-reflection.