The Critical Phenomenological Research Methodology Based on Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy

This article presents the application of the critical phenomenological research methodology, based on Merleau-Ponty's philosophy. It describes his phenomenology, and it discusses some fundamental presupposes, as well as the implications of its conception of worldly man, which make this methodology a critical phenomenology. It shows an example of the research of the lived experience of stigma in women from being abandoned by their husbands in Tiangua - CE - Brazil, how the critical phenomenological researcher conducts the phenomenological interventions in the interview, and how he analyses the emergent contents critically, assuming himself as a worldly researcher, whom has an hypothesis as a misgiving about what one is looking for and that should go out from the brackets.