Abstract
This article presents the notion of experience in its own dynamic structure according to Luigi Giussani, pointing out its originality. Experience as intelligence of the meaning of things that enables the emergence from reality to consciousness is analyzed in view of its characteristic of increasing a person's ability to understand and love as well as to be open to totality. The originality of Giussani's notion of experience is the emphasis on the event rather than on the modern and contemporary characteristic of the subject suppressing reality, who might overcome the reductions of experience to a feeling, or a subjective or ephemeral phenomenon.
Keywords:
Experience; Elemental experience; Phenomenology; Luigi Giussani; Humanistic psychology