What is pictured or figuratively conceived, what immediately is, has, as such, the form ofbeing something other than consciousness; but a Notion is also something that immediately is, and this distinction, in so far as it is present in consciousness itself, is its determinate content; but since this content is at the same time a content grasped in thought, consciousness remains immediately aware of its unity with this determinate and distinct being, not, asin the case of a picture thought, where consciousness still has specially to bear in mind that this is its picturethought; on the contrary, the Notion is for me straightway my Notion.