ABSTRACT
The purpose of phenomenological reflection is to try to grasp the essential meaning of something; Phenomenological reflection is both easy and difficult. This chapter attempts to grasp the pedagogical essence of a certain experience. It examines, therefore, what meaning the idea of theme has for phenomenological description and interpretation in the human sciences. In the chapter the author examines that his pedagogic understanding of the theme of 'being left' as 'the experience of homelessness, brokenness' is that insight that permits me to make sense of the text of life and to be practically responsive, as author, to the text of life. The conversation has a hermeneutic thrust: it is oriented to sense-making and interpreting of the notion that drives or stimulates the conversation. Our lived experiences and the structures of meanings in terms of which these lived experiences can be described and interpreted constitute the immense complexity of the lifeworld.
