Intentionality of consciousness is usually taken to refer to its 'aboutness', that every moment of conscious experience, whether perceptual, conceptual or whatever other modalities you care to name, is always about something. This is strange enough, since consciousness seems to think of itself as a power of pure transparency, independent of any object, but it also elides the more conventional sense of intention, as deliberately willed, intended as distinct from unintended. The latter sense is close to the idea that experience necessarily expresses a self, that every thought reveals and produces a thinker, the intendant of the intentions. This self is never directly present but is the evolving temporal reality behind the iterations of experience - this is what you get to know when you get to know someone. That too is just an idea, of course, but a peculiarly indelible one; if you 'see through' it then it is precisely what is seeing through, and so there it is all over again. If the object is not the separate reality that you take it to be, then neither is the subject. How many ways are there to say this?