Limite: o cinema de Mário Peixoto como inspiração para narrar singulares histórias

Abstract

This work proposes to rethink the traditional psychology based on modernity, having as inspiration the film Limite, by director Mário Peixoto produced in 1931. We consider it important to include historical context and facts regarding the director and the film, bringing elements that can expand the dialogue of psychology with the narratives presented. We will rely on the actor-network theory (TAR) as a research methodology, which brings resources that allow the researcher to follow meetings and network relationships, produced and updated by human and non-human actors in articulation, affecting and transforming reciprocally. The research with TAR, then, will follow the processes in these movements and actions generated in the network connections. The film Limite also inspires us through the relationships between the characters and their dramas, with the different non-human actors in the film and, mainly, with the relationships of contrast between the images and the situations that the characters experience. The possible dialogue between the film and the conception of a non-modern psychology, along the lines discussed by Ronald Arendt, overflows when we watch the film Limite and build our own relationships with a non-human actor represented by the film.