In both inner and outer apperception, we find a stronger and more stable structure into which a relatively unsettled and hence weaker element is integrated. They are drawn together at nodes of similarity, while dissimilarity blocks a complete fusion. As a result of this contest of forces, the weaker element gets stuck or “fixed” by the stronger. Now recall that both stronger and weaker elements on this account are representings; therefore the stronger one will be the observ-ing (“awar-ing”) consciousness, while the weaker one, while not un-conscious (for it is stuck above the limen), is the observ-ed. In the above example, the m-series will be “observed” “like an object” by the P-series (SW VI: 144).[67] It is just this unbalanced relation between representations (or representational structures and elements) that constitutes the phenomenon of self-perception, i.e., apperception.