ABSTRACT
Ernst Friedrich Wenceslaus Schwarz was born on September 28, 1878, in Lutenberg, Slovenia. Schwarz's main theme concerns the concept of fantasy. Though Schwarz never refers to Brentano, he, together with Meinong, assumes central theses of Brentano's 'classification of psychic phenomena.' Brentano had shown that there are three fundamental classes of mental phenomena: presentations and fantasy; judgments; and emotive acts. These acts interrelate in such a way that presentations of something provide the basis for the other classes of acts which are thus one-sidedly dependent on presentations on which they are 'superimposed.' The mental 'complex' thus may be, in the language of Brentano, characterized as being one-sidedly dependent, in this order, on: sensations, presentations, fantasy-presentations and fantasy-feelings. This means that this mental complexion entails, and is built on, the other lesser and lesser complex mental states. Schwarz in this way explains the course and origin of mental complexions.
