Saint Aubert Integration — Phase 4 Backlog

Date: 2026-04-25 Audit phase: Phase 4 (per AUDIT_PLAN.md v1.3, M3 cap)

The 2026-04-25 Phase 4 audit reviewed 11 pages in depth (under the M3 cap of 15) for Saint Aubert E&C II integration. This backlog file lists the identified-but-deferred candidates for the next audit round, with reasoning for each so a future executor can pick up from the right priority.

Phase 4 outcome (2026-04-25)

Reviewed in depth (8 Tier A + 3 Tier B = 11 pages):

# Page Updates
1 silence Added Saint Aubert as source; new section on silence as one of four figuratifs (silence + shadow + horizon + depth); Cousteau-Malle 1955 Le Monde du silence + obstetric ultrasound conjuncture in late prégnance
2 freud-without-demonology Added Saint Aubert as source; new §6 on the replacement thesis (consciousness → unconscious, MSME 1953 genesis); cross-link to inconscient-primordial and the contested-status question page
3 wild-being Added Saint Aubert as source; new section on the épreuve mutuelle counter-reading (being is what bears flesh, not what flesh is); November 1960 "barbaric Principle" reread
4 passivity Added Saint Aubert as source; "Dough, Blisters, Flywheel" subsection updated with Cassirer-Schwungrad source for flywheel/volant (Saint Aubert's philological discovery); cross-link to volant
5 hyper-dialectic Added Saint Aubert as source; new genealogical section on Natu2 1958 first use of hyperdialectique (Saint Aubert's correction of prior V&I-only attribution)
6 edmund-husserl Added Saint Aubert as source; new section on the Gurwitsch causal thesis (Aron Gurwitsch's 1957 Théorie du champ de la conscience drives MP's anti-Husserl turn)
7 jean-paul-sartre Added Saint Aubert as source; new section on the late MP anti-Sartre thread (cristallisation cardinal, grain-du-sensible, texture imaginaire, folie de la conscience, hyper-objet)
8 maurice-merleau-ponty Added Saint Aubert as source; new Connections entry with archive-primacy reading (5-volume Être et chair project, three depth-preserving theses)
9 interrogation Added Saint Aubert as source; small Connection on foi interrogative (Épilogue § 2) and Claudelian carnal cogito
10 depth-profondeur Added Saint Aubert as source; small Connection on depth as one of four figuratifs
11 henri-wallon Added Saint Aubert as source; subsection on Wallon as the philological source of ultra-chose (Saint Aubert's reconstruction)

Deferred candidates (next audit round)

Pages identified during Phase 4 Step 4.1 as Saint Aubert-thematic but not reviewed in this round. Listed in suggested priority order for the next audit pass.

Priority A (next audit — direct Saint Aubert relevance)

  1. hyper-reflection (last updated 2026-04-12) — Saint Aubert's grain-du-sensible argument bears on hyper-reflection: if the perceptual texture (grain) resists the reflective gaze, hyper-reflection has to incorporate the resistance. Saint Aubert's reading of the folie de la conscience (Sartre + Descartes shared disease) extends to the reflective project. Worth a Position addition.

  2. lebenswelt (last updated 2026-04-11) — Saint Aubert's Husserl-via-Gurwitsch reframing (now on edmund-husserl §"Gurwitsch causal thesis") affects how the Lebenswelt is read. The "tourbillon substitution at NT p. 297-298 April 1960" (Saint Aubert's third Gurwitsch pillar) is a Lebenswelt-specific finding.

  3. ontological-difference (last updated 2026-04-11) — Saint Aubert's ontologie de l'objet (a primary new concept page from the 2026-04-23 ingest at ontology-of-the-object) is a polemical category positioned against MP's late ontology. The contrast bears on ontological-difference: MP's "Ce n'est pas par l'être et le néant que nous pouvons comprendre cela" (NLVIaf2 [149]) reframes ontological difference itself.

  4. nonphilosophy (last updated 2026-04-21) — Saint Aubert's foi interrogative and the cogito charnel extend the indirect-method genealogy. The published 2026-04-23 ingest already touched the intra-ontology page; the nonphilosophy page deserves a parallel pass given Saint Aubert's distinct reading of indirect ontology (vs. Chouraqui's intra-ontology reading).

  5. schneider-case (last updated 2026-04-21) — Saint Aubert's inconscient excessif and "perception is the true unconscious" (EM3 [247]v(32)) reframe Schneider's loss of "merely possible" as a structural opening of the perceptual unconscious. Worth a small note.

Priority B (next audit — indirect relevance)

  1. visible-invisible (2026-04-21) — Saint Aubert's figuratifs cluster (silence + shadow + horizon + depth as the four figures of the invisible) bears on this central concept; small Position addition.
  2. motor-intentionality (2026-04-21) — Saint Aubert's volant (flywheel) bears on the body-schema → motor-intentionality genealogy that this page tracks. Cross-link to volant and to passivity §"Dough, Blisters, Flywheel".
  3. body-schema (2026-04-18) — same as motor-intentionality reasoning.
  4. hyper-objet's upstream pages — Saint Aubert's Winnicott-via-Bachelard treatment of the imaginary touches several pages on perceptual imagination and dream (esp. primordial-symbolism and the dream-related sections of passivity).
  5. generative-passivity (2026-04-21) — Beith's static/genetic/generative passivity tripartite intersects Saint Aubert's portance/donation-en-chair register.
  6. interanimality (2026-04-21) — Saint Aubert touches Nature material; naissance/co-naissance register has an interanimal extension.
  7. intra-ontology (2026-04-21) — already noted in Phase 1 gap report: Saint Aubert's Vers une ontologie indirecte (Vrin 2006) is the named-framework anchor (NOT in raw/). When the 2006 volume becomes available, this page should add a Position section for Saint Aubert's distinct framework alongside the Chouraqui-built reading.
  8. dehiscence (2026-04-13) — Saint Aubert's épreuve mutuelle de la chair et de l'être relates structurally; small Connection.
  9. phenomenal-field (2026-04-12) — Saint Aubert's grain-du-sensible (ch II § 3, anti-Sartre anchor) extends the phenomenal-field concept; small Position addition.
  10. primordial-symbolism (date TBD) — Saint Aubert's reading of dream/imagination via Bachelard and Winnicott bears.

Not in scope for next audit (defer further)

  • Pages on MP's primary interlocutors not yet integrated:
    • paul-claudel (2026-04-17) — Saint Aubert relies heavily on Claudel for naissance/co-naissance and "Σιγή the abyss"; the entity page should reflect this. Mostly already integrated via co-naissance.
  • The 2006 Saint Aubert ingest (Vers une ontologie indirecte, Vrin) is the most consequential raw/ absence per the Phase 1 gap report. Acquiring and ingesting that volume would unlock a substantial wave of Phase 4 reviews on intra-ontology / nonphilosophy / wild-being / chiasm pages (since Saint Aubert's 2006 framework is a distinct indirect-ontology reading not currently captured on the wiki).
  • The 2013 Saint Aubert Du corps au désir / Être et chair I ingest would similarly close cross-references on desire / body / vrai dehors pages.

Methodology notes

The Phase 4 cap (15) prevented full coverage of the ~30 pre-2026-04-23 Saint Aubert-thematic pages. The choice to spend ~70% of the cap on Tier A (8 pages with substantial subsection additions) and ~30% on Tier B (3 pages with light Connection additions) reflects the diminishing-returns curve: the Tier A pages have cardinal Saint Aubert findings (replacement thesis, Gurwitsch causal claim, volant-Cassirer borrowing, anti-Sartre thread, foi interrogative, Natu2 1958 hyperdialectique genesis) that are load-bearing for any future paper-side work; the Tier B pages have adjacent findings whose absence is less consequential.

A future executor should:

  1. Begin with Priority A (5 pages) — these have direct cardinal-finding relevance.
  2. Triage Priority B (10 pages) by recent ingest activity — pages updated since 2026-04-25 will likely have absorbed some material organically.
  3. Re-check whether Saint Aubert 2006 (Vers une ontologie indirecte) has entered raw/; if so, that ingest precedes another Phase 4 round.

The Saint Aubert integration is by nature unbounded — the 5-volume Être et chair project plus the article corpus represents one of the most archive-driven secondary literatures on MP, and any pre-Saint-Aubert page on a Saint Aubert-thematic concept can defensibly receive an integration pass. The cap discipline matters precisely because of this unbounded character.