ABSTRACT
I have permitted myself to use the word ‘consciousness’ in a sense a little different from that which it usually receives. The expression ‘state of consciousness’ implies, for psychic structures, a kind of inertia or passivity that seems to me incompatible with the data of reflection. I use the term ‘consciousness’ not to designate the monad and the set of its psychic structures, but to name each of these structures in its concrete particularity. I will therefore speak of the image consciousness, the perceptual consciousness, etc., inspired by one of the senses of the German word Bewusstsein.
