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5:1

(In »The syntheological pyramid – Atheos, Pantheos, Entheos and Syntheos«)

The fundamental question within phenomenology is at what point the human being is confronted for the first time with the need to produce a credible totality of her chaotic existence. That this doesn’t happen already at birth is beyond all doubt. The new-born infant only experiences world, but no self. The child sees itself as one with the mother; in its fantasy their bodies are still a single whole, as they were when the umbilical cord bound them together, and they were not yet separate entities. Understanding this requires insight into difference which means that the child can experience chaos; and from this literally chaotic experience, the (somewhat older) child can proceed to first identify and then satisfy its need for a phenomenological totality.