Volume 1, Issue Part 1, 2007
Selected Essays from Asia Part 1
Huang Shin-Yang
Pages 151-174
The Social Formation of Psychic Systems
The sense of solitude is the special feeling that people have on occasion. How is the sense of solitude created? For Luhmann, the operation of conscious systems will oscillate between consciousness and phenomenon, that is, between self-reference and hetero-reference. Husserl considers that philosophy is the privacy of the meditator. This means that the meditator has to live a solitary life, because everything in question can be sought only in his mind.