Abstract
The author examines the several phases of Derrida’s interpretation of Husserl phenomenology of time consciousness. The main issue is a–non-husserlian–thesis about the deferred action of primordial impression, always intermingled with retention, allowing a of Husserl’s metaphysics of presence, and an approximation with Freud’s views about the Nachträglichkeit structure of psychic life. Consequently, the author stresses that Freud will allow, despite Husserl’s explicit assertions, a completion of phenomenology beyond the limits Husserl imposes on it (and on himself) as he remains dominated by the assumption of the absolute priority of primordial impression over retention.