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In the world of qualitative research, especially in nursing studies, phenomenology is a powerful method to analyze the meanings of individual and contingent experience. The concept of Phantasieleib (from Marc Richir) explains the function of the phenomenological method when applied to empirical data. When the Phantasieleib of the phenomenologist can enter into the movement of a certain narrative, a kind of phenomenological reduction begins. This phenomenological analysis reveals the composition of his/her practice within its inter-subjective and institutional contexts. All aspects of the grammatical character of the narrative can be a hint of comprehension of this composition.
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French version of this text will be published in a volume edited by Pablo Posada at University of Coimbra Press. Japanese version of the text is published as the appendix of Murakami (2013).
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The Phantasieleib - inspired by Husserl’s Phantasie-ich (Husserl 1980) - is simultaneously the center of the world of imagination and the starting point from which the flowing appearances of imagination occur, “The Phantasieleib is nothing but, as “center of orientation”, that the zero-point (Nullpunkt) taht is not a point or an element of space. It is the cell of spatialization from which there is orientation” (Richir 2000, p. 137).
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We can refer to « institution » in the late thought of Merleau-Ponty (2003).
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Murakami, Y. (2019). Phantasieleib and the Method of Phenomenological Qualitative Research. In: de Warren, N., Taguchi, S. (eds) New Phenomenological Studies in Japan. Contributions To Phenomenology, vol 101. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11893-8_8
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