ABSTRACT
Objects are encountered fi rst of all outside the theoretical structures of psychology; they exist primarily as human realities, as aspects of being produced and maintained through human action. In this sense they are not concepts produced through the operation of psychological theories but rather are created within the context of the lived experience of everyday life; they are encountered fi rst of all within the life space of individuals (the lebenswelt or what Sartre has termed le vecu ). Indeed they are so closely interwoven into the texture of this context that in thinking about them it is diffi cult to detach them from this totality; they are implicated at every level: the conceptual, the affective and the practical.
