自覚

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 自覚 (じかく) is awareness or self-recognition of one's own state or responsibility.
• Basic usage: 責任を自覚して recognizes a responsibility; 疲れているという自覚がない denies awareness of being tired.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Object of awareness and quoted content
  • A direct object takes を, while a proposition is packaged by という自覚; がない states that awareness is absent.