Key Arguments

• Husserl recalls that it is the transcendental ego that emerged when the entire Objective world and all Objectivities were ‘parenthesized’, and that this ego ‘constitutes in his constitutive life everything that is ever Objective for me — the ego of all constitutions’.
• He then states that, as this constituting ego who has constituted the world as a phenomenon, ‘I have carried out a mundanizing self-apperception — under the title “Ego in the usual sense” — in corresponding constitutive syntheses and am maintaining a continuing acceptance and further development of it.’
• Through this mundanizing apperception, everything belonging to my transcendental ownness ‘enters, as something psychic, into “my psyche”’, so that the transcendental contents of ownness are reinterpreted as components of a worldly psyche of a psychophysical man.
• From this constituted psyche ‘as phenomenon and part of the phenomenon man’, Husserl notes that ‘I can go back to the all-inclusive absolute ego, the transcendental ego’, indicating a constitutive relation in which the mundane ego is a derivative self-apperception of the transcendental ego.

Source Quotes

We now ask how I, the human Ego reduced to what is purely my own and, as thus reduced, included in the similarly reduced world-phenomenon and, on the other hand, I as transcendental ego are related to one another. The transcendental ego emerged by virtue of my “parenthesizing” of the entire Objective world and all other (including all ideal) Objectivities. In consequence of this parenthesizing, I have become aware of myself as the transcendental ego, who constitutes in his constitutive life everything that is ever Objective for me — the ego of all constitutions, who exists in his actual and potential life-processes and Ego-habitualities and who constitutes in them not only everything Objective but also himself as identical ego.

The transcendental ego emerged by virtue of my “parenthesizing” of the entire Objective world and all other (including all ideal) Objectivities. In consequence of this parenthesizing, I have become aware of myself as the transcendental ego, who constitutes in his constitutive life everything that is ever Objective for me — the ego of all constitutions, who exists in his actual and potential life-processes and Ego-habitualities and who constitutes in them not only everything Objective but also himself as identical ego. We can say now: In that I, as this ego, have constituted and am continually further constituting as a phenomenon1 (as a correlate) the world that exists for me, I have carried out a mundanizing self-apperception — under the title “Ego in the usual sense” — in corresponding constitutive syntheses and am maintaining a continuing acceptance and further development of it.

In consequence of this parenthesizing, I have become aware of myself as the transcendental ego, who constitutes in his constitutive life everything that is ever Objective for me — the ego of all constitutions, who exists in his actual and potential life-processes and Ego-habitualities and who constitutes in them not only everything Objective but also himself as identical ego. We can say now: In that I, as this ego, have constituted and am continually further constituting as a phenomenon1 (as a correlate) the world that exists for me, I have carried out a mundanizing self-apperception — under the title “Ego in the usual sense” — in corresponding constitutive syntheses and am maintaining a continuing acceptance and further development of it. By virtue of this mundanization everything included in the ownness belonging to me transcendentally (as this ultimate ego) enters, as something psychic, into “my psyche”.

We can say now: In that I, as this ego, have constituted and am continually further constituting as a phenomenon1 (as a correlate) the world that exists for me, I have carried out a mundanizing self-apperception — under the title “Ego in the usual sense” — in corresponding constitutive syntheses and am maintaining a continuing acceptance and further development of it. By virtue of this mundanization everything included in the ownness belonging to me transcendentally (as this ultimate ego) enters, as something psychic, into “my psyche”. I find the mundanizing apperception; and now, from the psyche as phenomenon and part of the phenomenon man, I can go back to the all-inclusive absolute ego, the transcendental ego.

By virtue of this mundanization everything included in the ownness belonging to me transcendentally (as this ultimate ego) enters, as something psychic, into “my psyche”. I find the mundanizing apperception; and now, from the psyche as phenomenon and part of the phenomenon man, I can go back to the all-inclusive absolute ego, the transcendental ego. Therefore if I, as this ego, reduce my phenomenon, “the Objective world”, to what is included in my peculiar ownness and take in addition whatever else I find as peculiarly my own (which can no longer contain anything “alien” or “other”, after that reduction), then all this ownness of my ego is to be found again, in the reduced world-phenomenon, as the ownness / of “my psyche”.

Key Concepts

• The transcendental ego emerged by virtue of my “parenthesizing” of the entire Objective world and all other (including all ideal) Objectivities.
• I have become aware of myself as the transcendental ego, who constitutes in his constitutive life everything that is ever Objective for me — the ego of all constitutions, who exists in his actual and potential life-processes and Ego-habitualities and who constitutes in them not only everything Objective but also himself as identical ego.
• In that I, as this ego, have constituted and am continually further constituting as a phenomenon1 (as a correlate) the world that exists for me, I have carried out a mundanizing self-apperception — under the title “Ego in the usual sense” — in corresponding constitutive syntheses and am maintaining a continuing acceptance and further development of it.
• By virtue of this mundanization everything included in the ownness belonging to me transcendentally (as this ultimate ego) enters, as something psychic, into “my psyche”.
• I find the mundanizing apperception; and now, from the psyche as phenomenon and part of the phenomenon man, I can go back to the all-inclusive absolute ego, the transcendental ego.

Context

Early in §45, Husserl explicitly raises the question of how the reduced human ego included in the reduced world-phenomenon relates to the transcendental ego, and explains this relation in terms of a mundanizing self-apperception by which the transcendental ego constitutes itself as a psychophysical man with a psyche.