The First Stage

 

Feeling is intellect and will in an unconscious form, or intuition. Feeling arises only when the impression made on the organism is reproduced again within the self. In feeling the self-activity continues as a reaction without attacking the object by a real process. Self-activity is a reaction against surrounding conditions In recollection and memory, the self-activity, further isolates the object, and it self from the world. The capacity to recollect images is a higher form of self-activity because it can recall the ideal object. Recollection is a collection of representations not bound by time.  Memory is a systematized recollection. Memory is the grouping faculty by whose aid sense perception becomes a perceiver of species as well as individuals.             Through the activity of introspection the mind ascends from sense perception to memory. With attention self-activity can better to discriminate between the special, particular object and its general type.  Memory is the conscious reproduction of an object, while perception is an unconscious reproduction of the form of an object (Harris 1969).