Odé Erê: Dialogues between Psychology, Culture and Education in the Quilombola community in Bahia

Abstract

Social Psychology seeks to comprehend the interaction between individuals and society so as not to reduce it to a dichotomous perspective. This text narrates the experience in what remains of a quilombo community in the interior of Bahia. A dialogue is also proposed between Culture, Education and Psychology based on a case study from the analysis of records consigned in the field journal in three different contexts: the transdisciplinary meetings with the professionals involved in the project; the socio-dramatic groups formed by the artistic educator of the community and the individual care of a child by an ethno-psychologist. Psychoanalytic operators were used heuristically as a starting point for the analysis. It was found that it is important to propose a model of intervention in community psychology that is not reduced to clinical and individual treatment regarding purportedly exclusively psychological issues. The contents that emerged from individual care were elaborated and re-signified in the group socio-dramatic care and vice versa. This experience steers the discussion about the importance of considering that wounds and traumas do not belong just to an individual but rather are created from a common symbolic and cultural heritage.