Auditory auto-affection (hearing-oneself-speak) is structurally analogous: 'Augenblick' (the instant) literally means 'blink of the eye,' linking auditory self-presence to the same visual spacing.
Auto-affection(Linked by Derrida to the analysis in Voice and Phenomenon)
The structure of self-address in which a subject speaks to and hears itself; in the context of the secret, the unavoidable self-telling required to possess a secret at all.
Structurally analogous(as used in comparing arguments)
Having the same basic logical pattern or structure, even if the specific details are different.
Visual spacing(as used in phenomenology and philosophy of perception)
The idea that vision involves gaps or intervals—for example, the space between what you see and when you see it, or the distance between objects in your field of vision.
More specifically, Derrida argues that, when Husserl describes lived-experience (Erlebnis), even absolute subjectivity, he is speaking of an interior monologue, auto-affection as hearing-oneself-speak. According to Derrida, hearing-oneself-speak is, for Husserl, “an auto-affection of an absolutely unique type” (Voice and Phenomenon, p. 67). It is unique because there seems to be no external detour from the hearing to the speaking; in hearing-oneself-speak there is self-proximity. It seems theref