“Bergson insisted that life is continuous and our perception of it discontinuous. It follows that our intelligence is incapable of forming an adequate idea of life. It is not intelligence but intuition that provides us with an adequate idea of life. (Intuition in humans corresponds to instinct in animals.) Proust attempts to overcome the problem of the discontinuity of perception with involuntary memory, with the intuition of creating a new form and a new vision that can furnish us with an impression of life’s continuity.”