Du jour au lendemain (12/4)."It seems to me that the most original experience of consciousness, or at least that of those who become philosophical, is disappointment. For, if things delighted us, fulfilled us, we would not question why they were this way and not another. We would find that things were fine as they were. (long silence) If we are disappointed, it is because we were expecting something. The problem then becomes how to know where that expectation comes from. A large part of my analysis ... consists of understanding that expectation is consciousness itself. ...this is in a way the key that I have tried to turn in the proustian lock. Because it seems to elucidate the entire enterprise and most of the experience that Proust relates."
