In introducing the five contributions to phenomenological psychology in this issue the phenomenological approach is described, on the one hand, as a naïve science which accepts the subject's explications of his own experience, but, on the other, as ambitious in that it strives towards a rigorous and systematic exposition. In order to make prereflective experience clear, it has always to struggle with the limitations of language.
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