Yet: “The structural fact thus described—the double register—appears as a constant.... At the same time [my italics] it corresponds to the knowledge that Marivauldian man has of himself: a ‘heart’ without vision, caught in the field of a consciousness which itself is only vision” (p. 64). But how can a “structural fact,” traditional during this era (assuming that as it is defined, it is determined and original enough to belong to an era) “correspond” to the consciousness of “Marivauldian man”?