Gier, Nicholas F.  “Intentionality and Prehension.”  Process Studies  6 (Fall 1976): 197-213.

Abstract

This article attempts to show some significant parallels between process philosophy and existential phenomenology, specifically Whitehead and Merleau-ponty. Both philosophers begin with a description of the contents of human consciousness and both perform henomenological reductions.  Both philosophers reject a substance metaphysics, affirm a doctrine of internal relations, and hold a monadic view of reality and consciousness.  Some differences are discussed, the principal one being  in the area of causality.  The major conclusion of the article is that there are good grounds for proposing an equivalence of prehension and operative intentionality on the one hand, and subjective aim and act intentionality on the other.  [Abstract from The Philosopher’s Index]