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a) Highlighting of the phenomenal structure of aroundness as such is constituted by: remotion, region, orientation (directionality)
The first two phenomena, remotion and region, refer back to orientation. If spatiality belongs primarily to worldhood, then it is not surprising if we now show phenomenally that in the analysis of the world hood of aroundness we have already made use of its characters, albeit implicitly. Among the characters of the world relative to its world hood we have cited that of being handy, which we defined as the presence {Anwesenheit} of what is immediately available in concern. This determination of the 'immediately' includes the phenomenon of nearness.
Furthermore, the analysis of the sign and of indicating made it clear that concern in an independent mode, as a special task, can undertake the discovery and release, the advance presentation of what can be pursued in the local constellation of the environing world at a definite moment. The arrow on the car indicates where the car is going, the way to this and that direction. Thus, the phenomenon of aroundness includes the distinctive characters of nearness and direction (way to ... ).
Nearness implies distance [Ferne] or, as we shall later put it more precisely, nearness is only a mode of remotion [Enifernung]. Nearness and distance, which characterize the things of the world under concern as they are encountered in concern, already give us the phenomenon of remotion. Let us note at once that 'remotion' does not refer to the spacing between two points, even when we do not take them as pure points but as worldly things (say, the distance of the chair from the window). It refers rather to the temporally particular nearness or remotion of the chair or window to me. Only on the basis of this primary remotion, that the chair, insofar as it is there in a worldly way, as such is removed from me, as such has a possible nearness and distance to me, only on this account is it possible for the chair to be remote from the window, and that we can designate this referential connection of the two as remotion, although this usage of remotion is already secondary. The relation of the two points here can now no longer be designated as remotion. For these two points as geometric points are not remote but have a spacing [Abstand]. Spacing and remotion do not coincide. Instead, spacing is ontologically founded in remotion and can only be discovered and defined when there is remotion.
The character of the indicated constellation into which a particular environmental thing can move, for example, a car in taking the way to ... , includes the original form of 'where to,' that is, 'to' a location, more precisely put, to a place, and this implies a particular region.