The Autobiography of the I or Ego - Or, the Metaphysics of an Interloper and Impostor, Himself in the Role of Confessor #249442

The present work is in effect a disserta tion to show that the ego, as referring to the subject as distinguished from the object, is not, which is to say that I am not, that you the reader are not self-conscious, nor even conscious, yet that we are so sure that we are; that only the thinker — which IS not you nor I — 1s conscious, and not even he (or it) is self-conscious; to show, in a word, that, that we are conscious and self-con scious is all illusion and even all delusion, except as we reason ourselves into a know ledge oi the illusion as only the illusion that it is.