ABSTRACT
Combining both informal and formal language, which alternatively interrupt each other, the following text demonstrates (my) creation of meaning, regarding (emergent) phenomena and me (a “person”), based upon poetic metaphors and memories. In this way, some of Gendlin’s “Philosophy of the Implicit” radicalism is presented, along with his notion of experiencing (in juxtaposition with Rogers’ experience) and his understanding of the person-centred concept of congruence. Under the overarching perspective of Experiential Phenomenology, a latent critique unfolds – of the special “weight” of dominant or preferred, already constructed, schemas of meaning-formation (e.g. in Existential psychotherapy) and of the “ontological”, regarding Gendlin’s view of language (beyond postmodernism) and the hermeneutic interactions between language (or symbolization in general) and experiencing. Is this a new, not naïve kind of (psychological) empiricism?
