"Intentionality is precisely such a principle. To claim that mental activity is intentional in structure is to claim, at the very least, that it is composed of two distinguishably different phases, which we shall designate as the "act phase" and the "object phase." In and through an act --"act" in the strict sense of mental act or act of consciousness--the mind directs itself onto and absorbs itself in a specific content. What is most remarkable in this self-transcending movement of mind is that what is aimed at in the content, the intentional object, need not be existent. In fact, such an object is always "intentionally inexistent": intended and yet not (qua intended) existent. In Brentano's celebrated description:"
From: Imagining: A Phenomenological Study
And yet the object of me is you...If I were to act...it is...and you are the act in me that makes me breathe.
As I was at the bottom..I breathed...and I thought about you..and I breathed...and they thought that I acted...but, I was only for you that I breathed..and you breathed..and I felt my need to move..and I breathed..and I felt you..for through you I breathed. Give me a chance to live..I do not ask you..for you I love...
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