While Descartes, in his reflections on the cogito, becomes aware that infinity not only cannot be constituted as a (dubitable) object, but has already made infinity possible as a cogito overflowing the object, (a nonspatial overflowing, against which metaphor shatters), Husserl, on the other hand, sees in the cogito a subjectivity with no support from without, constituting the idea of infinity itself, and providing himself with it as object.