The relation between Bergson's philosophy and French phenomenology has received far more attention than has the possibility of bringing Bergson's philosophy and Husserl's phenomenology into dialogue.¹ This is not only because Levinas, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty all at some point directly engage with Bergson's philosophy in their work, but also because both the method and the aim of Bergson and Husserl's philosophies seem incompatible.² Most generally stated, unlike Husserl, Bergson does not aim to provide a description of the essence of acts of consciousness; and unlike Bergson, Husserl is not at all interested in developing a metaphysics that would "penetrate more deeply into the interior of matter, of life, or reality in general.'³