ABSTRACT
Experiencing is meaningful and value-oriented, but at the same time it has the character of spontaneous, self-contained process, a flow that is closed within the human monad, and thus is set counter to life, the world and the Other. This chapter dwells in more details on the position of relatedness between existentialism and experientialism. It demonstrates how such relatedness is realized in the experiential approach of Co-experiencing Psychotherapy. The concept of experience in philosophy, psychology and psychotherapy has a long history. The process of experiencing is pre-reflective, pre-conceptual, holistic, multifaceted, but at the same time internally differentiable. Experiencing is the activity employed in resolving critical situations. The immediate experiencing is conceptualized through the category of consciousness and contrasted with its other modes – apprehension, reflection and the unconscious.
