ABSTRACT
To follow a phenomenological methodology is to carry out an analysis of experience by way of an exacting procedure. The procedure is an ongoing and wholly interconnected flow of investigations, and of discoveries, revelations, wonderings, questionings, rethinkings, elaborations, and so on, in the course of the investigations. Wonder, in particular, displaces one from the familiar everyday world and into what may be described as a ‘longing to know’ and thus to an erasure of ‘the creative poverty of not yet knowing.’ Precisely along the lines of longing and of not yet knowing, this paper elucidates the actual practice of a phenomenological methodology and shows in the process how the actual practice is a particular kind of performance.
