The
self is the
subject of one's own
experience of
phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts. In
phenomenology, it is conceived as
what experiences, and there isn't any experiencing without an experiencer, the self. The self is therefore an "immediate given", an intrinsic dimension of the fact of experiencing phenomena. In some other trends of
philosophy, the self is instead seen as requiring a
reflexive perception of oneself, the individual person, meaning the self in such a view is an
object of
consciousness.