ABSTRACT
How can phenomenology gain access to the prereflective experiences as they occur in the taken-for-granted spheres of our everyday lifeworld? Normally we rarely reflect on the living sensibilities of our experiences, since we already experience the meanings immanent in our everyday practices through our bodies, language, habits, things, social interactions, and physical environments. Phenomenology is the method to break through this taken-for-grantedness and get to the meaning structures of our experiences. This basic method is called the reduction. The reduction consists of two methodical opposing moves that complement each other. Negatively it suspends or removes what obstructs access to the phenomenon—this move is called the epoché or bracketing. And positively it returns, leads back to the mode of appearing of the phenomenon—this move is called the reduction (Taminiaux, 1991, p. 34).
