(AUTO)BIOGRAPHICAL NARRATIVE AND ITS CONTRIBUTIONS: FROM THE PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE TO THE FORMATION OF SUBJECTS

Abstract

This article aims to weave some reflections centered on the (auto)biographical approach in order to characterize the processes inscribed in the narrative construction and their effects on the narrator and the researcher. The achievement of this objective will be guided by the narrative of a health professional who composed the group of participants of the author's post-doctoral research in France, which, taken as an example, allows pointing out five elements of response to the search for the vitality of the subject that the (auto)biographical narrative highlights: to give shape to the experiences lived through words; to bring the narrator into contact with new facets of lived situations; to be at the service

of understanding the construction of the individual that is born from the examination of his life trajectory without, however, losing sight of its intersection with the space-time social dimension; to be based on the co-construction of knowledge; to enter through the life stories of the subjects into the analytical and global dimension of experience. It is concluded that the narration of lived experiences is both an organizing act of what is lived and a space for the production of new perceptions, understandings and perspectives. The commitment to understand the subject from this approach is to assume the ethical commitment of engagement with them and their realities of life, within a paradigm of the plural singular, which has in co-construction the condition of the possibility of producing knowledge situated and involved with the ways of being, being and acting in the world.