Narrativas autobiográficas de adultos em situação de rua: considerações sobre metodologias na psicologia cultural

Abstract

This research was based on concepts and methodological procedures of Cultural Psychology. This research was carried out with two central objectives: 1) to evaluate the potential of autobiographical narratives as a methodological tool for research in Psychology; and 2) to investigate processes in the narrative organization of the Self of street people who attend public spaces of temporary shelter. Two adults that lived in the street participated in this investigation. The data were autobiographical narratives, carried out in a previously reserved space in a public institution of temporary social reception for the participants. The narratives were constructed during nine episodic interviews with each participant. The results pointed to the organization of the self of two adults in a street situation, highlighting the positions of narrator and protagonist, related to themes of their history and perspective of time. In addition, the results also pointed, as historical and cultural aspects, to the performance of antagonistic, centripetal and centrifugal forces, acting for the conservation or innovation of meanings in narratives. The operation of these forces fostered situations of ambiguity and tension considered as characteristic processes in the negotiation of meanings in the autobiographical narratives.