If retentional content is itself experienced as past, then the retention must be distinguished from a present-moment impression, requiring a higher-order act to unify them into a single experience.

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Higher-order act(philosophy of mind): A mental action that operates on or combines other mental experiences—like your mind stepping back to organize or connect different thoughts together.
Present-moment impression(philosophy of perception): The direct, immediate experience of something happening right now, as it occurs, without any memory or anticipation mixed in.
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).
Retentional content(philosophy of time and perception): The information or experience that your memory holds onto from a moment that just passed—like the echo of a sound you heard a second ago.

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