ABSTRACT
What is awareness? How is dreaming different from ordinary awareness? What does mathematics have to do with awareness? Are different kinds of awareness related?
“Awareness” is commonly spoken of as “mind, soul, spirit, consciousness, the unconscious, psyche, imagination, self, and other.” The Phenomena of Awareness is a study of awareness as it is directly experienced. From the start, Cecile T. Tougas engages the reader in reflective notice of awareness as it appears from moment to moment in a variety of ways. The book draws us in and asks us to focus on the flow of phenomena in living experience, not as a theoretical construct, nor an image, nor a biochemical product, but instead as phases, moments, or parts that cannot exist without one another. Tougas shows how these parts exist in mutual dependence as a continuum of awareness, as the flow of lived time, and how noticing time deepens psychological self-understanding and understanding of another.
The Phenomena of Awareness is divided into four parts:
• Seeking and Noticing Awareness
• Observing and Understanding the Flow of Phenomena
• Distinguishing Intentional Acts
• Work in Progress
Drawing on the work of E. Husserl, G. Cantor and C.G. Jung, this book is an original synthesis of phenomenology, mathematics and psychology that explores awareness and the concept of ‘transfinite number’. This book will be of interest to analytical psychologists, philosophers, mathematicians, feminist scholars, humanities teachers and students.
Cecile T. Tougas teaches Latin at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, Durham. She taught philosophy at the University of Southern Maine and the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |32 pages
Seeking and noticing awareness
chapter |3 pages
Medieval Metaphysics
chapter |2 pages
The Equal
chapter |5 pages
Jung's “images” and Husserl's “phenomena”
chapter |8 pages
Edith Stein and Husserl in Göttingen
chapter |2 pages
Seeing the world as Husserl did
chapter |5 pages
World without soul
chapter |5 pages
Husserl, Jung, and the “unconscious”
part |32 pages
Observing and understanding the flow of phenomena
chapter |8 pages
Transfinite whole
chapter |8 pages
Transfinite number as limit and essence
chapter |10 pages
Subjectivity
chapter |5 pages
Double intenationality in time-consciousness
part |40 pages
Distinguishing intentional acts
chapter |13 pages
Memory and feeling
chapter |4 pages
Expectation and its double intentionality
chapter |4 pages
Double intentionality in dreaming
chapter |8 pages
Intentional activity as the work of spirit
chapter |7 pages
Nebulous knowing
chapter |3 pages
The Other in us
part |18 pages
Work in progress