The Seba library treats Apperception in 7 passages, across 6 authors (including Jung, Carl Gustav, Evans-Wentz, W. Y., Ricoeur, Paul).
this necessarily results in a particular, individual choice and pattern of apperception. These aptitudes can be shown to be inherited instincts and preformed patterns, the latter being the a priori and formal conditions of apperception that are based on instinct.
Jung argues that archetypes constitute the a priori formal conditions of apperception, giving the newborn psyche its determinative shape before any experience accumulates.
, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, 1959thesis
The introverted attitude is characterized in general by an emphasis on the a priori data of apperception. As is well known, the act of apperception consists of two phases: first the perception of the object, secon
This passage links typological introversion directly to the primacy of apperception's a priori data, framing the two-phase act of apperception as a foundation for understanding psychic orientation.
, The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation, 1954thesis
If such an apperception is indubitable, it is to the extent that it is not a form of vision simply turned inside, an intro-spection, which, however close its object may be, contains the minimal distance of reduplication. The intimate sense, it must be said, has no object.
Ricoeur distinguishes self-apperception as the apperception of an act—not a substance-deduction or inner vision—thereby granting it an indubitability that introspection cannot claim.
, Oneself as Another, 1992thesis
Technically, one should speak of it as visionary apperception. The phenomenon corresponding to it is primary and primordial, irreducible, just as the perception of a physical sound or color is irreducible to anything else.
Corbin introduces 'visionary apperception' as a technically distinct, primordial mode of supra-sensory perception proper to the Sufi physiology of the man of light.
, The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism, 1971thesis
visionary: apperception, 62, 64, 67, 68, 70, 72, 80, 81, 86, 101, 103, 106, 135, 138; geography, 39, 43, 44
The index entry confirms the sustained and recurrent centrality of 'visionary apperception' as a technical term throughout Corbin's study of Iranian Sufism.
, The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism, 1971supporting
A further 'state of apperception' Hellpach finds in 'emptiness of consciousness.' Here he undertakes, among other things, a little excursion into the uncultivated deserts of dementia praecox
Jung critically reviews Hellpach's typology of 'states of apperception,' including emptiness of consciousness, using it as a foil to expose the conceptual nebulosity in theories of suggestibility.
, Collected Works Volume 18: The Symbolic Life, 1976supporting
On the analysis of transcendental apperception, one may now consult Martin Heidegger, Kant und das Problem der Metaphysik
Heidegger's editorial note directs the reader to his Kant-book for a fuller analysis of transcendental apperception, situating the concept within his broader existential critique of Kantian subjectivity.
, Being and Time, 1962aside