ABSTRACT
The problem of perception presents itself to theoretical philosophy under a twofold aspect: a psychological perspective and an epistemo-critical one. The figure world of myth shows us a way to the understanding of the pure expressive phenomena. However difficult it may sometimes be to inspect the basic structure of the mythical world from the standpoint of our worked-out theoretical consciousness and from its separation of the inner and outward, the subjective and objective, its particular nature stands out sharply and clearly as soon as we turn to a different domain — as soon as we situate ourselves in the sphere of the pure expressive phenomena. The pure expressive phenomena as such preserve their old strength; they enter, however, into a new and closer relation with one another; they fuse into formations of a higher order. The expression is not only lived but is, as it were, characterologically evaluated.
