The Narrative Construction of the Identity of a “Hit by a Dam”: Investigating the Conscious Experience Through Intersubjectivity

Authors

  • Paulo Henrique Aguiar Mendes UFOP
  • Daiman Oliveira da Costa PUC Minas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5752/P.2358-3428.2022v26n57p193-221

Keywords:

Intersubjectivity, Consciousness, Narrative, Identity

Abstract

In this paper, we will approach the “problem” of consciousness through intersubjectivity, with the aim of mapping and evaluating the sociocognitive functioning of certain patterns of intersubjective experiencing that are manifested through language and, more specifically, through narrative practice. In order to do so, we selected a narrative interview, recorded and transcribed in 2016 within the scope of the GEDEM-UFOP meetings, through which the narrator reports her experience with the rupture of the “Fundão” Dam, in Bento Rodrigues (MG), and builds, intersubjectively, her identity as “hit by a dam” from three stages: non-belonging, identification and militancy. In theoretical terms, we will mainly rely on the contributions of Damásio (2015; 2018), Abrantes (2010), Zlatev (2008) and Gallagher & Hutto (2008) to argue that narrative practice can be conceived as a first-person plural data within the scope of consciousness studies.

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Author Biography

Paulo Henrique Aguiar Mendes, UFOP

Possui graduação em Letras, Licenciatura em Língua e Literatura Portuguesa, pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (1993), doutorado em Estudos Lingüísticos pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (1999) e pós-doutorado pela Université Paris XIII. Atualmente é professor adjunto I da Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (UFOP). Tem experiência na área de Linguística, com ênfase em Análise do Discurso, Pragmática e Semântica.

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Published

2022-11-21

How to Cite

MENDES, Paulo Henrique Aguiar; COSTA, Daiman Oliveira da. The Narrative Construction of the Identity of a “Hit by a Dam”: Investigating the Conscious Experience Through Intersubjectivity. Scripta, Belo Horizonte, v. 26, n. 57, p. 193–221, 2022. DOI: 10.5752/P.2358-3428.2022v26n57p193-221. Disponível em: https://periodicos.pucminas.br/scripta/article/view/28363. Acesso em: 20 oct. 2025.

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Section

Dossiê temático: Perspectivas atuais sobre a mente