Abstract
Biography forms, indeed, the privileged medium in which the techniques of literature and its way of structuring questions present themselves to historiography. Pierre Bourdieu has justifiably spoken of a 'biographical illusion', convinced as he is that it is essential to reconstruct the context, the 'social surface' on which the individual is dealing at each moment. The history which depends on oral archives or which attempts to introduce psychoanalysis in historical-biographical research, experiences the influence of this only very weakly or sporadically. In fact this hermeneutic approach seems to lead to the impossibility of writing a biography. It has led them to a better use of narrative forms in particular; and has led them to techniques of communication which are more respectful of the open and dynamic character of choices and acts. Keywords: biography; hermeneutic approach; historical-biographical research; historiography; Pierre Bourdieu; psychoanalysis
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