A phenomenological reflection on women's lived experience of giving in circumstances of material scarcity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda M. Emerson
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Phenomenological Reflection ◽  
Material Scarcity

Phenomenology in Its Original Sense

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 810-825 ◽  
Author(s):  
Max van Manen
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Conscious Awareness ◽  
Phenomenological Reflection ◽  
Original Sense ◽  
Inquiry Practices ◽  
Experiential Research ◽  
Experiential Analysis ◽  
Meaning Analysis

In this article, I try to think through the question, “What distinguishes phenomenology in its original sense?” My intent is to focus on the project and methodology of phenomenology in a manner that is not overly technical and that may help others to further elaborate on or question the singular features that make phenomenology into a unique qualitative form of inquiry. I pay special attention to the notion of “lived” in the phenomenological term “lived experience” to demonstrate its critical role and significance for understanding phenomenological reflection, meaning, analysis, and insights. I also attend to the kind of experiential material that is needed to focus on a genuine phenomenological question that should guide any specific research project. Heidegger, van den Berg, and Marion provide some poignant exemplars of the use of narrative “examples” in phenomenological explorations of the phenomena of “boredom,” “conversation,” and “the meaningful look in eye-contact.” Only what is given or what gives itself in lived experience (or conscious awareness) are proper phenomenological “data” or “givens,” but these givens are not to be confused with data material that can be coded, sorted, abstracted, and accordingly analyzed in some “systematic” manner. The latter approach to experiential research may be appropriate and worthwhile for various types of qualitative inquiry but not for phenomenology in its original sense. Finally, I use the mythical figure of Kairos to show that the famous phenomenological couplet of the epoché-reduction aims for phenomenological insights that require experiential analysis and attentive (but serendipitous) methodical inquiry practices.

scholarly journals Contact with My Teacher’s Eyes

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yin Yin
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Eye Contact ◽  
Transient Nature ◽  
Phenomenological Reflection ◽  
Pedagogical Relation

Eye contact, a subtle, pedagogical encounter in our classrooms easily slips teachers’ attention because of its transient nature. Teachers see their students almost every day. Yet, what does a moment of eye contact mean experientially to our students? By asking the question, ‘what is the student’s experience of making eye contact with their teacher,’ this paper represents a phenomenological study that captures this phenomenon and delves into its pedagogical meanings. Through lived experience description and phenomenological reflection, this research shows pedagogical eye contact, a usually taken-for-granted dimension, mediates our pedagogical relation and calls for teacher’s thoughtfulness.

Review of Investigating Subjectivity: Research on Lived Experience.

1996 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-85
Author(s):  
Terri Gullickson ◽  
Pamela Ramser
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience

Role and Lived Experience of Haitian Clergy Following the Haitian Earthquake

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wismick Jean Charles ◽  
Jamie D. Aten
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience

Human Beings Are Free: The Namibian Lived-Experience of Liberation

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodore T. Bartholomew
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Human Beings

The secure-enough base: a response to "the need for something more than a secure base: is a secure base always enough?"

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 190-202
Author(s):  
Debbie Zimmerman
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Attachment Security ◽  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Parallel Process ◽  
Secure Base ◽  
Transitional Space ◽  
Key Aspects

In this response to Michaela Chamberlain's article, I engage with some of the key aspects of her thinking in her exploration of the concept of the secure base and how the theory of its "provision" is tested by her lived experience of working with patients whose attachment-related trauma has compromised their capacity to experience her as a secure base. In particular, I explore the idea of the secure base as a two-person relational construct. I use an attachment lens to consider the complexities and challenges in facilitating attachment security when working with disorganised attachment. I explore the question of the need for an earlier "holding" phase as a precursor to the capacity to relate to a secure base and consider the expansion of the concept of the term secure base to incorporate this earlier "holding" dimension. I also question the possibility and desirability of "complete holding" in working towards attachment security, engaging with Winnicott's theories to explore the ideas of the transitional space of illusion and disillusion, of "good-enough", and of internalisation in the therapeutic process of building attachment security. Finally, I consider the parallel process of the therapist's development of their internal secure base.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document