According to the earlier assertion, a mere reflection on consciousness does not yet yield the mental in purity and in its own essentiality. Rather, we must in addition abstain from that believing in being <Seins-Glaubens> by virtue of which we accept the world in the natural life of consciousness and our reflecting on it; as phenomenologists, we are not permitted to go along with this (and in further consequence, indeed, we must abstain from every position-taking of any kind toward the world na·vely accepted by us). As phenomenologists we must be as it were non-participating onlookers at the life of consciousness, which can only in this way become the pure theme of our experiencing. Instead of living in and through consciousness, instead of being interested in the world
in it, we must merely look at it, as if it, in itself, is consciousness of this or that, and at <precisely> how it is interested in its objects.
THE AMSTERDAM LECTURES <ON> PHENOMENOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
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