Repetition and Stability within Human Temporality: An Existential-Phenomenological Approach

This article develops a threefold model of human temporality—ecstatic-horizontal, cyclical-repetitive, and linear-irreversible—by integrating insights from Heideggerian phenomenology, embodiment theory, and contemporary phenomenological research. Emphasizing the role of repetition across all three dimensions, the article explores how temporal structure contributes to the formation and stability of personal identity. Special attention is given to the interplay between consciousness and embodiment, and to the existential implications of finitude. Repetition emerges not as mere recurrence, but as a constitutive act, at times taking on a rhythmic character, through which authenticity, continuity, and self-understanding are enacted within time.