Fig. 4.

The self-world structure consists of a reciprocal balance between both ends of its mutual continuum (as reflected by self and world). Alternating unilateral imbalances of the self-world structure either excessively toward the self or the world can manifest in schizophrenia. Either the world, that is, natural environmental phenomena, or the self, that is, any sense of self, consequently becomes epistemologically excluded within phenomenal experience. Under these circumstances, both the self and the world partially cannot be experienced anymore at the same time and consequently lack their respective intentional focus. The intrinsic union of self-consciousness and the self-world structure is then bygone.