Phenomenological psychology

Phenomenological psychology, in phenomenology, a discipline forming a bridge between psychology and philosophy. It is one of the regional ontologies, or studies of the kinds of fundamental being, that is concerned with what it means to experience a certain thing (e.g., to experience fear) and with what the a priori, or essential and universally applicable, structures of such an experience are. It is the ontology that has been most thoroughly dealt with by phenomenologists. Although...