Butthe being for selfinto which being for an.other returns, ie the self, is not a self belonging exclusively to what iscaUed object and distinct from the'r; for consciousness, qua pure insight, is not a single self which could be confronted by theobjectasequallyhaving aselfofits own, but is pure Notion, the gazing of the self into the self, the absolute seeing of tse/f doubled; the certainty of itself is the universal Subject, and its conscious Notion is the essence of all actuality.