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| Author(s): |
Ana Carolina Comin Vargas
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Psicologia (IP/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2012-11-07 |
| Examining board members: |
Maria Inês Assumpção Fernandes;
Angela Maria Alonso;
Marlene Guirado
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| Advisor: | Maria Inês Assumpção Fernandes |
| Abstract | |
The objective of this research is to develop a study of the participation within Non- Governmental Organizations institutional context, using a psychoanalytic perspective of subject, group and institutions. The initial approach of the analyses is based on the evaluation of several descriptions of the phenomena named as participation by the Social Sciences Literatures. Two phenomena of different natures are outlined: one refers to the rational attitude of the individual constrained by the institutional framework; the other refers to the group taken as a process by its own, bordering the established institutional framework and aiming to transform it. A different approach from a psychoanalytical standpoint is proposed in this work. Starting from the premise that participation is an inter-subjective relationship, both natures of the phenomena are here analyzed as part of the same inter-subjective process. Based on psychoanalytical concepts, it is considered that both of them implicate the individual as well as the group on its mutual foundation, and operate under the effect of the subconscious causality. But, one takes place within an institutional framework and the other happens beyond it. Those differences outline the dialectical relationship between the institution and the instituting process. The participation issue in the institutional NGO environment is analyzed based on the definitions of participation here proposed. Based on a research of the social and historical context of the NGOs foundation in Brazil (in the 1970s and 1980s), highlighting its essential elements, it is demonstrated that the most representative NGOs were created to provide support to popular participation. Considered as spontaneously emerged, this participation phenomenon that took place during the Brazilian dictatorship and the democratic transition, appeared as an instituting process aiming transformations of the established institutions of society. Once in a democratic context, the NGOs are believed to be the representatives of the civil society for participation in public matters, as well as the protagonists of a social transformation. However, this belief built by the heritage of its instituting origins, expressed on those ideologies of social transformation and provenance from civil society, counterpoint the current instituted characteristics of those organizations. The NGOs are now well set up in society within the established institutional framework. They are constantly seeking their own survival, tied up to their financial supporters and their interests, which raises the question of what are the real demands that are being responded to and how those organizations could really act as change agents. In this sense, the participation issue within the NGO institutional context expresses a paradox between an instituting meaning of participation as represented by those organizations, and its institutional reality. In addition to the theoretical study of this issue, together with additional exploratory goals, three interviews with NGO Directors are presented in this study. The objective of these interviews is to understand how the subjects, here considered as subjects within a group as proposed by Rene Kaës, handle the paradox of their participatory practices once they are inserted into the institutional context of these organizations (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 09/03255-4 - The problem of social participation related to Non-Governmental Organizations: a psychoanalytic approach |
| Grantee: | Ana Carolina Comin Vargas |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |