Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.7906/indecs.12.4.5

Looking into Self-Exploration Attitudes and Ways of Constructing Experience

Ioana Laura Popa ; University of Vienna
Urban Kordeš ; University of Ljubljana – Faculty of Education

Abstract

Empirical phenomenology – study of lived subjective experience is the latest addition to the interdisciplinary efforts aiming at understanding the human mind. We present the research, which was originally aimed at investigating the experiences of Holotropic Breathwork, however, results of the analysis convinced us to move the focus of our interest to differences between individual ways of constructing experience. We have identified three types of personal epistemologies (i.e. ways of constructing the subjective experience) and found the correlation with individual attitudes towards self-exploration. The paper aims at providing a novel model with regard to how experience is constructed and expands the understanding of the limitations of the phenomenological interview techniques.

Keywords

empirical phenomenology; explicative interview; constructing experiences; personal epistemology

Hrčak ID:

129219

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/129219

Publication date:

31.10.2014.

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