Full Idea
Consciousness, considered in its 'purity', must be reckoned as a self-contained system of Being, a system of actual Being, into which nothing can penetrate, and from which nothing can escape.
Gist of Idea
Pure consciousness is a sealed off system of actual Being
Source
Edmund Husserl (Ideas: intro to pure phenomenology [1913], II.3.049)
Book Reference
Husserl,Edmund: 'Ideas: general introduction to pure phenomenology', ed/tr. Boyce Gibson,W [Routledge 2012], p.95
A Reaction
Recorded without comment, to show that among phenomenologists there is a way of thinking about consciousness which is a long way from analytic discussions of the topic.