Narratives from infamies: a little of possibility for the contemporary subjectivation

Abstract

What can social psychology do by adding to its own methodological and conceptual body some strategies originating from the poetic arts? What can social psychology do if we add fictional narratives to our works and researches about infamous lives that were locked and forgotten into asylums and mental hospitals? This article presents three perspectives about the potential resulting from the hybridization between social psychology and fictional narratives: the fictional writing situated beyond whats is speakable, the writing beyond judgment, the writing beyond the silences produced in spaces of disciplinary closure. We propose a conceptual essay that explores the expressive potential of fiction to bring out new possible visibilities about those forgotten and infamous lives. With these conceptual tools, towards a biographematical work and the potency of the fictional writing, we are able to overcome with our research, the silence produced by the walls of the ancient São Pedro Psychiatric Hospital.