What is the purpose of the self-criticism that Merleau-Ponty addresses to his texts from the 1940s? How we can understand the alleged dualism present in Phenomenology of perception (1945)? What kind of consciousness Merleau-Ponty calls "mythology" in 1964? In which sense can we understand the term not-being in 1945, which appears to be the main point to which Merleau-Ponty‘s self-criticism is directed? In contrast with some scholars who try to show that there is an exteriority between being and not-being inPhenomenology of perception, I try to show that in 1945 being and not-being are two names for the same notion: temporality or expressiveness. Thus, the criticism of The visible and the invisible (1964) is directed to another point and Phe...