The result of the theoretical prioritisation of relationship over identity is a fundamentally different understanding of object and consciousness. This leads us to the second part of this paper. This relationship between consciousness and object is the main relationship the phenomenologist is concerned about. The entire phenomenological project is based on this intentional structure. Intentionality, that is the insight that consciousness it always of something, can only be fully understood in view of the previous explanations.
Intentionality is first and foremost a relationship, on which consciousness and objects are founded.
We have to be careful to avoid an objectification of consciousness with a retrospective ascription of the feature of intentionality to it. Intentionality as the directedness of consciousness, which is to say that, consciousness is always of something, incorporates the inseparability of consciousness and its object. It is the realisation of this inseparability, which leads to the particular understanding of the notion of consciousness. It is important to note that Husserl emphasises the absolute priority of the relationship over the two polarities of objectivity and subjectivity. The philosophical attention is turned to the relationship between object and consciousness without the ultimate aim to assert or define objectivities.