Abstract
The study that originated the present article, which was performed in the city of Vitória, capital of the state of Espírito Santo, Brazil, in 2016, had the goal of discussing the concept of experience in the works of Walter Benjamin and its possible intersections with the formulations of the Clinic of Activity approach. We sought to think of these thresholds to produce turning points in the field of the work clinics, and, with this goal, to present an array of conceptual and methodological questions based on Benjamin’s contributions. The text is organized according to the concepts that compose the Clinic of Activity, especially the concept of activity and the way in which this clinic approaches the issue of experience. Subsequently, we highlighted the concept of experience in the works of Benjamin and tried to establish a dialogue between the concepts of activity and experience in these approaches. With the analysis, we tried to show the importance of this conceptual-methodological confrontation when the transformation of the worlds of labor presents itself as an ethical-political directive. We concluded that neither the concept of experience in the works of Benjamin nor the concept of activity within the Clinic of Activity can be understood as part of the privatization of human experience, indicating a dimension of the work processes that is always collective.
Keywords:
activity; experience; Clinic of Activity; worker’s health