At the end of his life (1937), Husserl gave notice of how, in 1898, he had an intuition of the correlation man-world and that only at this time he had been able to take definitive steps in clarifying this correlation, thanks to the discovery of the meaning of lifeworld. The article offers an approach to husserlian thought, both in its published and unpublished versions, with the purpose of identifying the incidence of the meaning of lifeworld in the late texts of the father of phenomenology.