Expanding Microphenomenology: The Researcher-as-Obstacle Approach to Continuous Phenomena
January 8, 2026 Raphaël Julliard, Damien Roy, Marion Botella preprint
Investigating phenomena that practitioners experience as continuous, without clear beginning or end, poses a challenge for standard micro-phenomenology, which reconstructs short, bounded episodes retrospectively. This article introduces the Researcher-as-Obstacle (RAO) framework and protocol as a structural adaptation for such cases. RAO organizes a pretext experience that genuinely mobilizes...