Contando e recontando histórias: leitura e subjetividade no sistema prisional

Abstract

This work has as proposal an analysis of an experience with of reading and storytelling sessions held with men and women prisoners is a penal hospital and two female units of the penitentiary system of Rio de Janeiro State, in the periods from 2003 to 2005 and 2006 to 2008, respectively. In order to discuss the practices of the psychologists in the correctional environment, this present study analyses the movements and the life of these professionals, questioning the hegemonic practices the rule lives in prison. From the bibliographical look up of Institutional Analysis and the works of Foucault, Deleuze and Gattari, Roger Chartier and Michel de Certeau, as well as the contemporary oral history and the storytellers, searches for the way the reading sessions and storytelling are inventive processes of intervention of prison environment, and which are the possible effects produced by such events in the subjectivities of imprisoned and derived from prison people. As tools, uses onsite logbooks, fragments of the works produced along the sessions and interviews with the actors involved in this process (male and female prisoners, prison employees, derived prisoners from the units where these sessions were developed) in order to map the build up process of this research-intervention. With the help of the oral history searches the understanding, through the narratives, in which way the session devices and the psi practices co-engender it selves in the working dynamics of a prison, as well as are occasions for the questioning of the known world and the subjective experiences. We believe those devices are tactics to transform the correctional therapeutics in political and open-minded clinic (Batista, 2008, p. 198) and we bet on the insurgence of the psi practices