Subtle narratives

Authors

  • Teresinha Natal Meirelles Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo; Oficinas Terapêuticas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-1624.v6i10p69-78

Keywords:

Psychosis, children, institutional work, groups, psychoanalysis

Abstract

This essay outlines the reflection upon institutional work carried out with psychotic children. Having Michel de Certeau's view of the term narrative - seen as enhancing the "action forms" in the world of those who seem to be marginal to the official exchange circuits - as a starting point, the idea of "bricolage" is hereby used as support to a viewpoint that intends to bet on a perspective that should look elsewhere and suppose that, even if apparently unintelligible, the tireless effort of these children in their contact with the object draws an intent of an even more difficult construction, once the word bears the materiality of a book, a chair or even a cushion.

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Published

2001-06-01

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Section

Dossier

How to Cite

Meirelles, T. N. (2001). Subtle narratives. Clinical Styles. The Journal on the Vicissitudes of Childhood, 6(10), 69-78. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-1624.v6i10p69-78