Object awareness

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Object awareness is a term used in general psychology .

According to the definition by Karl Jaspers (1883–1969), object consciousness in the broadest sense encompasses everything that confronts us recognizably. This not only addresses the performance of the sensory organs , but also everything that is in front of our "inner, spiritual eye". This is everything that we “grasp, think, acknowledge”, regardless of whether it is “real or unreal, vivid or abstract, clear or indistinct”. Jaspers differentiates between figurative and bodily qualities of conception. In the case of the pictorial qualities the character of subjectivity predominates, in the case of the bodily qualities the objectivity character. According to Jaspers, pictorial conceptions are to be viewed as ideas , bodily ones as perceptions . Through the process of the intentional act , the sensory material is animated and thereby gains objective meaning. The object consciousness is also part of the body consciousness , which is otherwise differentiated from Jaspers , since the body can be perceived both as an object with the help of the sense organs in the outer space and emotionally as a state or as a sensation in the physical state consciousness .

Oswald Bumke (1877–1950) takes up the distinction made by Jaspers between ideas and perceptions and adds that ideas are experienced “indefinitely, shadowy and more or less colorless”. Peter R. Hofstätter (1913–1994) considers the distinction between object and state consciousness to be essential, especially for the area of ​​feelings. Since feelings have a strongly pronounced ego quality , state awareness is important for this subjective evaluation of feelings. It is gradually in inverse relation to the object consciousness, which relates to factually objective and therefore essentially neutral facts. In the French and English schools bodily qualities of the conception were called coenesthesia .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jaspers, Karl : Allgemeine Psychopathologie . Springer, Berlin 9 1973, ISBN 3-540-03340-8 , 1st part: The individual facts of the soul. § 1 "Object Awareness": page 51 f. and § 3 “Body Consciousness”: page 74 ff.
  2. ↑ Bumke, Oswald : Textbook of mental illnesses . Verlag JF Bergmann, Munich, 6 1944; Page 23
  3. ↑ Hofstätter, Peter R. (Ed.): Psychology . The Fischer Lexicon, Fischer-Taschenbuch, Frankfurt a. M. 1972, ISBN 3-436-01159-2 ; Page 124