With our satanic question ever in sight, one of our main concerns must be the possibility of change. To think differently, for creative thought to occur, there must be change: at the psychological level and then projected out into the world. The question of breaking out of the confines of the influence of genetic mental structure and socialisation is also a question of how patterns of thought may change. This then is the relation that the present chapter bears to the rest of the book; our experience of time is the experience of change, primarily in terms of linearity, through autobiographical narrative with regard to ourselves and historical narrative with regard to the outside world.

The present chapter shall use the notion of the circularity of time at the microlevel of mental action (as per Libet), and build up to the folded nature of memory and narrative constantly going back and reinterpreting the past in light of present and future circumstance. The question then becomes whether such circularity can somehow combine with linearity to help us effect change at the political level. It is in this regard that Deleuze's concepts of difference and repetition will be discussed at the close of the chapter.

The neuropsychological material in Chapter 1, along with that on the emotions in the last chapter, combine to give us a model of mental temporality which is in many ways counterintuitive to our ideas of the relation between thought and action.