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Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2017

Discovering lived experience

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As Francisco Varela strongly emphasized, "lived experience is where we start from and where we all must link back to, like a guiding thread". Since we have nothing other than our lived experience, it is crucial to develop disciplined methods to study it rigorously. However, as all traditions that tried to meet this challenge have noticed, from contemplative traditions to phenomenology, it is not enough to decide to "come back to the things themselves" (Husserl), to "come back from the map to the landscape" (Merleau-Ponty), or to"see things as they are" (in the Buddhist meditative tradition), to succeed in performing this act. A large part of our experience is unrecognized, unnoticed, and as modern cognitive science has shown very convincingly, we deceive ourselves when we try to describe it. However, this difficulty does not mean that our experience is out of reach. It means that accessing it requires a particular expertise, which consists in carrying out specific acts. The "micro-phenomenological interview method" aims at triggering such acts, through specific prompts and questions. This presentation will focus on these acts and on what they enable us to discover, with much surprise: our lived experience is very different from what we think or believe it is. When we come into contact with it, the structures that we usually consider as the most essential and solid vanish.
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hal-01653247 , version 1 (01-12-2017)

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Claire Petitmengin. Discovering lived experience. Mind and Life Europe. Summer Research Institute , Jul 2017, Chiemsee, Germany. ⟨hal-01653247⟩
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