Brentano on Consciousness

My goal, in this paper, is to answer the following question: should we understand inner consciousness in terms of intentionality? I argue the answer is *no.* My reason for rejecting an intentionalist (or representationalist) account of inner consciousness goes like this: if we understand inner consciousness in terms of intentionality, then the theory of inner consciousness is open to three influential objections, namely: the Transparency objection, the Extrinsicness objection, and the No Inner Appearance Objection. If, on the contrary, we understand inner consciousness as a sui generis, non-intentional kind of apprehension, then the theory of inner perception is immune to these objections.