Thirty years ago in Cracow, Ingarden wrote: "I wish to make myself aware of certain difficulties encountered by the theory so that I can find the ways and means to overcome them".¹ The intentions of this paper are very similar. I am far from being a "skeptische Hochmut' in approaching the problem of forms of objects in the work some scholars, recognizing it as a scholastic pseudo-problem, bereft of topical interest. But I must also admit I am unacquainted with the minimalistic humility according to which I should consider this problem as one of irresolvable mysteries of the world.