Abstract

This article attempts to frame Proust's treatment of the „mémoire involontaire” within a general concept of human being that prevails throughout the Recherche, and which is characterized by non-coïncidence. Proust always portrays the vicissitudes of a subject that never falls together with the world, the other or itself. „Mémoire involontaire”is itself, following Proust's description of love, jealously and art, the pre-eminent experience of this non-coincidence. Finally, the general concept of human being allows us to approach and to put into question the classic parallel with Bergson's conception of memory