INDECS, Vol. 12 No. 4, 2014.
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
Publication date:
31.10.2014.
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