Whether or not the epoché is the conditio sine qua non of phenomenological practice, one may still ask: where do we locate the point of departure for our relation to a world grasped in its becoming? Since an absolute or abstract thematization of the beginning is impossible, we must start from the contingent situation of the life-world in which we are here and now incarnate. This situation is intrinsically complex (structural, field-dynamic, and historical) implicating both world and subjectivity. In the legacy Merleau-Ponty inherits from Gestalt psychology, he finds a strategy for reflecting upon and reinterpreting Husserl, the very notion of the epoché, and the “enigma of the transcendental.”