Karey Pohn
Metabletics
Metabletics, the “theory of changes,” is van den Berg’s (1961) method of phenomenology.
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A Fidelity to Things
Phenomenology, in its faithfulness to the experience of things, is a love affair with the world, a bond first between experience and the thi
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Heuristic Research and Artistic Creations
I returned to lyric poetry, autobiography and biography. I engaged in an immersion process, open and receptive to the nature of discovery, w
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Depth Psychology and Heuristics
Personal experience plays an absolutely essential and inescapable role in depth psychological research and theory, because when we deal with
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Tacit Knowing and Indwelling
Tacit knowledge cannot be put into words but is at work behind the scenes, essentially explaining from another view the underlying dynamics
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Discovery and Passion
Heuristic research is a method that was developed by Moustakas (1990) which describes how personal experience is used as a valid research me
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Application to the Dissertation
Hermes is integral to hermeneutics; he is also at the center of Jung’s stone, and has played a central role in my dissertation and my life.
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Deepening Understanding
Now that we have the “lay of the land” of hermeneutics, we can proceed to explore a few of the concepts that will be central to my dissertat
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Explanation: The Field of Hermeneutics
The hermeneutic circle was anticipated in Plato’s notion of recollection or anamnesis: we can learn about the unknown only by recognizing it
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Hermeneutics: Origins and Etymology
Hermeneutics, the study of understanding, has ancient roots. It comes from the Greek word hermeneuin, “to interpret” and is associated with
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