protentionn.

1931 W. R. B. Gibson tr. E. Husserl Ideas iii. ii. 216 The same holds good, according to the naïvely natural view, in respect of anticipation.., or previsional expectation. At first there comes in the immediate ‘protention’ (as we might put it).

1941 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 2 341 These expectations—Husserl calls them..‘protentions’—belong, of course, to our present acting.

1974 D. Carr Phenomenol. & Probl. of Hist. iv. 103 It is the act conceived as the living present, with its horizons of retention and protention, which is ‘responsible’ for the original or primary givenness of anything.

2004 V. Sobchack Carnal Thoughts 158 The postmodern and electronic instant, in its break from the modernist and cinematic temporal structures of retention and protension, constitutes a form of absolute presence.

1931 W. R. B. Gibson tr. E. Husserl Ideas iii. ii. 237 Continuous changes in an opposite direction: ‘after’ corresponding to ‘before’, a protentional continuum [Ger. Kontinuum..der Protentionen] corresponding to the retentional.

1997 Ethnomusicology 41 470 Experience does not merely have a protentional/retentional structure; the structure of the living present is organized and can be managed along a number of parameters.