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This paper explores the possible relations between Eugene T. Gendlin’s focusing and Husserlian phenomenology. Its point of departure is the possibility of an individual and not strictly scientific self-knowledge, attentive to lived, bodily and affective experience. The notion of felt sense, rendered as “lived sense”, makes it possible to think of an implicit dimension of experience that has not yet been conceptually articulated. Focusing thus appears as a practice of attention, clarification and symbolization of latent meanings. This practice may be brought into dialogue with phenomenological intentional analysis, insofar as both seek to bring to expression what remains implicit in conscious life. From this relation emerges the possibility of a concrete phenomenology, closer to individual and situated experience.
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