If retention and perception differ in their intentional structure—not merely in how 'present' is defined—then collapsing them via terminological reinterpretation distorts the underlying phenomenology.

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Collapsing (in philosophical context)(describing the potential failure of the text's philosophical status): When something loses its original meaning or purpose and becomes reduced to something simpler or less significant.
Retention(Husserl's phenomenology of internal time-consciousness; central to Derrida's argument in Voice and Phenomenon): Husserl's term for the primary memory of the just-past that is folded back into present perception; paradoxically classified by Husserl as both a kind of perception (included in the present) and a kind of non-perception (different from the strict now).
distorts(in this philosophical statement): Twists or misrepresents the true nature of something.
intentional structure(Analytic philosophy's investigation of thought via language): The structure of human thought as directed toward or about objects and states of affairs

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