A phenomenological investigation concerns itself with the non-physical, and the questionable. They appear in, yet are separate from consciousness. The phenomena and the consciousness in which they appear are the object domain of phenomenology. Phenomenology concerns itself with consciousness. Consciousness is held to be analyzable and one major task of phenomenology is to obtain knowledge of what consciousness is.
Phenomenology aims to know the ways in which experience as consciousness intends the objective.
Phenomenology is not the descriptive science of consciousness. It does not merely describe consciousness, nor does it describe the way objects, or phenomena, seem. Phenomenology is the science of non-physical mental events treated as entities separate from, but appearing in, an analyzable consciousness.