You live to learn – (what) do we learn by experience? Subject scientific considerations on the relation between subjective experience and scientific generalization

Abstract

Since modern science and when compared to dogmatic assertions »experience« inheres a (ideology-) critical motive. But the reference to experience can also serve to discourage criticism of practice. This problem is discussed with respect to the relation between concepts and experience and to the relation between immediate und socially mediated aspects of experience. Finally, methodological aspects of a subject scientific concept of experience are discussed, with which the official discourse in nomothetic psychology is undermined and the connection of suffering and therapy to life conditions is inevitable.