Author(s)

Andréa Máris Campos Guerra^1*, Jacqueline de Oliveira Moreira², Lorena Vianna de Oliveira¹, Rodrigo Goes e Lima¹

¹Department of Psychology, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
²Department of Psychology, Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

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.

Psychoanalysis, Methodology, Research, Social Phenomena, Narrative Memoir

Guerra, A. , de Oliveira Moreira, J. , de Oliveira, L. and e Lima, R. (2017) The Narrative Memoir as a Psychoanalytical Strategy for the Research of Social Phenomena. Psychology, 8, 1238-1253. doi: 10.4236/psych.2017.88080.