Chapter 10.

Abstract

The Psychotherapeutic Situation and the Theory-Practice Relation-Zntuition and the Objectivist-Some Sidelights on Psychosomatics-The Neurotic in Our T i m e Resistance and Transference-Blind Alleys i n Psychotherapy-Psychotherapy and Education-The Case of L. G.-An Excursion into the Problems of Amnestic Aphasia-TheCase of L. G . (Concluded).

The origins and informed uses of the terms phenomenography and phenomenology

“…By then, the word phenomenography was thought to be a novel term unrelated to phenomenology. It is understandably unsurprising that prior uses of phenomenography were signaled with Sonnemann (1954), Falcomer (1902), and now in this paper, with Schmidt (1806). In Morton work cited above, Marton (1981) elaborated,The kind of research we wish to argue for is complementary to other kinds of research.…”

“…One of the most illuminating works that has vulgarized Husserl phenomenology, all too unknown or uncited in phenomenographic venues is Sonnemann (1954) work. Although dealing with psychotherapy, this work is a powerful implementation of Husserl writings in psychology in its broad sense as a social science grappling with knowledge and its methods.…”

“…Although dealing with psychotherapy, this work is a powerful implementation of Husserl writings in psychology in its broad sense as a social science grappling with knowledge and its methods. Sonnemann (1954) undertook minute inquiry into the role of the subject or self with regard to scientific knowledge needed in psychology and any science. To preserve Husserl phenomenology from the limitations of subjectivism and/or first-person experience, Sonnemann (1954) elucidated the concept experience, writing,In other words, experiencing, if we try to conceptualize it from the side of the subject, inevitably has what early phenomenology called Actcharacter , a character of action , it has this character inasmuch as action; to be just that, must go beyond itself, “transcend itself towards its task”, be more than aimless motion … This is about the opposite of what it [experiencing] does imply; the fundamental structural characteristic, in all experiencing, of a directedness-toward .…”

“…Phenomenology work is not the function of a subject's needs and drives, rather it is a work that inquires into the characteristics of actions situated in the world. Sonnemann (1954) emphasized, “From the very start, the orientation of phenomenological inquiry is objective in the only legitimate sense of focusing outward with the subject's own focus of experiencing” (p. 17). Phenomenology work achieves a departure from a subject's own interests to shared patterns behind things.…”

“…This feature of phenomenology tends to vanish from most accounts made by phenomenographers about phenomenology. The varieties of phenomenology are too many to be exemplified in the space of the present short reflection, interested parties can read informative exposés furnished by Sonnemann (1954), Embree and Mohanty (1997), Schuhmann (2011), McCarthy (2015), De Santis et al . (2021) and Renaudie (2021), among others.…”