Pelas memórias de um pioneiro: a trajetória de Waldir dos Santos Costa na história da Psicologia no Amazonas

Abstract

In this investigation, the understanding of Waldir dos Santos Costa's trajectory went through the institutions that contributed to his education as a psychologist and his workspaces, as he implemented the first Psychology services in Amazonas and dedicated himself in favor of the regulation of the profession in this state, during the period from 1973 to 2018, while he assumed the management of institutions, became a professor and led associative movements. It is a biographical study, in which narratives of this individual and his network of sociability were privileged sources of research. To inquire about the testimonials and documents gathered from personal archives and several guardian institutions, we searched for clues about his professional, academic and organizational presence among psychologists in Manaus. Provided with this material, we referred to Halbwachs (2003), Bosi (2004) and Kotre (1997) for their contributions to the comprehension of memory. Bourdieu (2006, 2010) and Certeau (2017), regarding the interpretation of the construction of a field of action and history. Sirinelli (2006), about the conception of generation. Alberti (2013, 2019) for the apprehension of narratives, as well as other authors. The architecture of the thesis includes five chapters, which cover the aspects of his formation to the legacy left by Waldir dos Santos Costa in his network of intellectual sociability. This work intends to contribute to the preservation of his memory as a protagonist and to the knowledge of the history of Psychology in Amazonas, still insufficient in its historiography, which prioritized other themes, objects, and regions of Brazil.