Mind over Matter

TRANSCENDENTAL EGO
Husserl's analysis focuses not just on the objects of consciousness but also on the acts of consciousness - perception, imagination, signification etc. which intend the object. The method culminates in a description of the essential structures of both the intended thing (noema) and intending consciousness (noesis), as these essences emerge from the free variation of imagination into the grasp of a united intuition. Through the process of phenomenological reduction, Husserl believed that one can also discover one's own "transcendental ego". This ego, as pure consciousness, is quite distinct from the "psychical self" that is of interest to psychology.

MEANING OF BEING
Husserl believed that his phenomenological method overcame the difficulties that Kant had identified in coming to know either "things-in-themselves" or the "transcendental self". By means of phenomenological reduction, Husserl believed that we could regain access to a presuppositionless world of transcendental immediacy where being becomes identical with its manifestation to consciousness. Being becomes reduced in a non-reductive sense of being retrieved and opened up to the meaning of being .