Abstract
The definition of the psychoanalytic method as an investigational method of unconscious processes allows for the interrogation of what would be the different possibilities and the listening devices available to psychoanalysis when it aims to research social phenomena. Around this question, the present article intends to explore the main methods of capturing the history of individuals, namely, the biography/autobiography, the testimony and the oral history, in order to identify the convergences and divergences of each one of these methods in relation to the psychoanalytical proposition. Based on such analysis, we endorse the narrative memoir as a genre that resembles the psychoanalytical clinical case construction, inasmuch as it considers the subjective and political dimensions that pervade the unconscious processes, without ignoring the dimension of the real displayed in the points of fiction, fixation and fantasy displayed in the researched stories.
Highlights
Freud (1923/1975) defines psychoanalysis, firstly, as a “procedure for the investigation of mental processes” (p. 235), as a “method for the treatment of neurotic disorders” (p. 235), and as a “scientific discipline” (p. 235), all three of them indissociable from each other
We endorse the narrative memoir as a genre that resembles the psychoanalytical clinical case construction, inasmuch as it considers the subjective and political dimensions that pervade the unconscious processes, without ignoring the dimension of the real displayed in the points of fiction, fixation and fantasy displayed in the researched stories
As taught by Alberti (1991) presents a reconstruction of the subject through fixation points, similar to what happens in the psychoanalytical research, an autobiography is characterized by the identity between author and narrator, which entails the fact that there is no interpreter
Summary
Freud (1923/1975) defines psychoanalysis, firstly, as a “procedure for the investigation of mental processes” (p. 235), as a “method for the treatment of neurotic disorders” (p. 235), and as a “scientific discipline” (p. 235), all three of them indissociable from each other. Moreira is a Level 2 CNPq’s research productivity grantee (Bolsista de Produtividade em pesquisa CNPq-Nível 2)
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