This undergraduate thesis tries to depict the concept of time in the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze with the emphasis on his work Difference and Repetition. In this work it is possible to locate three syntheses of time, out of which we chose the second one and made it the focal point of this thesis. The second synthesis of time is the origin of time, it is the memory, the so-called pure past, that does not succumb to representation. Alongside this past, there is another one, whose representation is possible, and we will connect this other past with the conception of memory. Based on this choice, the thesis presents Bergson’s concepts of memory and time as well, because he was one of the references Deleuze made. Bergson’s universe consists of the real and the virtual, and they are framed in the way of sense-image and memory-image. Bergson’s memory-image brings us closer to the object, whilst memory in Deleuze take us further away from it. This structure is reconstructed in Deleuze and it is that which consitutes the main issue surrounding both representation and memory.
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