We Know Ourselves from the Veil of Memory
The mental images and attitudes that determine how we
experience ourselves
form the basis of a whole implicit worldview. We also experience ourselves only indirectly, as a
subject experiencing an object. We are aware of ourselves as an object like other objects,
seeing ourselves in the world as one object among others. Even when one is aware of oneself as perceiver or subject, this
perception is different from the direct sense of our facticity, from the fact of our
existence. We still know ourselves from the veil of
memory.