The combining of two separate but near points of view in space enables us to infer depth and to gain a sense of the relative location of the viewer, or subject, outside of and continguous with the objective field. In a similar way the combining of two or more presentations of the same consciousness in time ought to provide a sense of the hyperspace from which the transcendental subject, central but unmanifest like the viewer in a perspective, looks - but it is something other than looking which is in play here - out on a life-world. This doesn't seem to happen much outside of certain rare works of literature, and part of the reason may lie in the fact that the point of view in time is always mediated by a persona, and our personae, because there are always many of them, are too variable and poorly integrated for us to be able to align their different visions. Our best seeking, best thinking, best knowing are jealously guarded the property of a single subpersonality, but what we are as the mask of a transcendental self is an unruly politics of subpersonalities. Although at any one time most of them are below the rostrum of waking consciousness they are in fact always active since they are needed to interpret the manifold signallings of the world which are each tuned to a register best read by a single matching egoity - an egoity which is far from believing that its purpose is merely to be an interpreter in the service of the currently dominant character. Any talk of the process of identification needs to take into account this necessary splitting of human personhood.