The Phenomenological Interview and the Study of Concious Experience.

Résumé

A way of studying conscious experience is by using interview. There are several manners of interviewing a person. One possibility is through out a flexible series of preestablished questions opened to the different reactions from the respondent. The interviews are taped recorded, transcribed and studied in a systemic and systematic way, by the three phenomenological steps: description, reduction and interpretation. The interview is used to obtain the respondent's conscious experience. The phenomenological steps are used to study the researcher's conscious experience of the recollected material from the interviews. In a semiotic phenomenological tradition, the conscious experience is understood in association with the concepts of intentionality, meaning and existence. So, conscious experience is considered in conjunction with its cognitive, affective and conative apparatus. Our researches focalize on the transformation from an epistemological consciousness to a psychological consciousness and its reverse. The interview has been a proficuous instrument for this end.