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In the very last part of his work, Leiris reveals how his art is constructed from bifurcations (bifurs) or erasures (biffures) which give the book its title and also lend meaning to this astonishing rehabilitation of the association of ideas.

Substitution

The hero is the one who always glimpses a last chance, the one who obstinately finds chances. Death is thus never assumed, it comes. Suicide is a contradictory concept. The eternal immanence of death is part of its essence.

But Husserl adds:
This universal (allumfassende) consciousness of time is obviously not a con¬ tinuous perception, in the pregnant sense of the term. ... In other words, it is obviously not a continuous internal reflection for which Erlebnisse would be objects, posited in the specific meaning of the term and apprehended as existing.

It is only then that the descriptions which deal with the intrinsic meaning of consciousness, descriptions which must be provided by intuition, will have more than a merely psychological value. On this depends the philosophical standing of intuition.