Data analysis of the Oral History: Foundations for a Critical Psychology

Abstract

This article starts from the research "Narratives of artisans: documents from memory of Minas Gerais" (Brazil), and its reflection focuses on the limits and the potential of Oral History research method, guided by contributions of the authors of Critical Theory of Society, more specifically, Adorno, Horkheimer and Benjamin. The Oral History as a research method allows a manner of doing science that claims by means of overcoming the conformed crisis that damages the scientific field, valorizing the reason as an intellectual and sensitive knowing, because it is necessary to researcher and to interviewee to access the subjectivity to narrate, interpret and to appropriate what was narrated, heard and felt in the research field. In this way, the paper takes into consideration Adorno's regards (1959/1986; 1931/1991) about cultural formation and the Exact Fantasy how to interpret the data obtained using empirical methods.