Something that I find quite interesting about classical phenomenologists is how, in some way or another, they give temporality some sort of primacy. As Husserl puts it, time-consciousness is the 'A' in the ABCs of consciousness. But this view is too formal to fully succeed.

In contrast to such phenomenological ideas, but certainly inspired by them, some enactivists (most notably, Varela) link affectivity and temporality, claiming that the former 'precedes' the latter. But this view risks conflating explanatory levels (transcendental and empirical).