THE NARRATIVE MEMOIRS AND THE ART IN THE SCENE OF THE PSYCHOANALYTICAL RESEARCH OF SOCIAL PHENOMENA

ABSTRACT.

This text aims to present the methodological approach used in the ‘Adolescent and laws’ research (Fapemig, 2016-2018), affirming the movement that attempts to achieve a horizontality topology when considering all the formal, informal, aesthetic and personal knowledge involved in the process. In this context, the narrative memoirs constitute a strategy for access subjects’ histories, poor young people living in violent territories. This strategy considers the psychoanalysis standpoint, allowing for considering the fiction through which the whole story is told. After collecting the narratives, the registered material was sent to artists invited to turn the listened histories into artistic and literary works. Then, during a devolutive workshop involving all actors (researchers, collective of artists and young people), the art pieces were handed to the narrators themselves. This encounter enabled listening to the young narrators and apprehending the real dimension that returned by way of the traumatic, the affirmation of the desire or repetition, indicating possible subjective and discursive resignification processes and new theoretical and methodological paths for the use of the narrative memoirs.

Keywords:
The narrative memoirs; art; psychoanalysis