ABSTRACT
A multi-layered phenomenon such as disorientation requires a kaleidoscopic perspective in that it cannot be easily captured using an axiomatic approach that would reduce it to a certain number of basic concepts and by following a sequence of logical steps, lead to a convincing conclusion. The author believes that a systematic account of the phenomenon and a multidisciplinary overview of the state of the art in research on the theme may provide the most valid foundation for any attempt to find a reasonably satisfactory way through the labyrinthine meanders of disorientation. However, while in Kant's early writings on space the subject provided the descriptive focus for the individual experience of (dis)orientation, as Kant further developed his thinking in the Critiques, this early phenomenological emphasis on the subject yielded to a rigid hierarchical system, which does not match her aim for a more descriptive approach.
