Narrative and creation: intersubjectivity and negotiation of meaning in the interactive I – other experience

Abstract

This article presents an interdisciplinary discussion in the frontiers between Psychology and Performing Arts, as part of a research project focused on emerging narratives in the context of creative actions. We examined the negotiations of intra- and intersubjective meanings during I-other interactions, in which the subjects sought to create narratives, in the sense of the term laid out by Walter Benjamin. The Data corpus was formed by a set of video recordings of interactions between young people of 8 to 14 years of age, who were given the task of working together to write a dramatic text to be used in the preparation of a play or public presentations; also by notes taken by the researcher / director in a field notebook on the aforementioned process. Datum were analyzed and discussed from the perspective of Semiotic-Cultural Constructivism in Psychology (Simão, 2005, 2007b, 2010), allowing for an understanding of three simultaneous aspects in the act of narrating. These aspects then allowed for the creation of a model representing I-other negotiations, using the subjects to meet the demands of a consensual creative construction.