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Item Open Access Between Paraphrasing and Becoming Another Self: Possible Plasticities in (Auto)biographical Narratives of People with Multiple Sclerosis(2017-05-15) Alvarenga Sena Venera, RaquelThis presentation is part of a research in progress entitled “(Auto)biographies and subjectivities: the other of himself in multiple sclerosis”, that investigates the subjectivation processes in the life stories of people affected by multiple sclerosis, organized in the research of life stories of the Museum of the Person, SP. In this work, I aim to understand the narrative plasticities that the authors of those stories mobilize from the concept of time. Based on Koselleck (2014), I highlight the synchronic and diachronic factors of the consciousness conditioning and I perceive how plastic the narratives are in comparison to the experiences with the disease over time. About the synchronic factors, the narratives cover from the diagnosis moment to the point that they do a digression for the accommodation of the disease in life. All the experiences in this time originate from the events, both symptoms and prognosis, in synchrony with what is known about the disease and that mark the affected ones. The hypothesis here is that there are experiences common to all and that generate similar significations in the narrative consciousness. Upon the diachronic factors, the sluices of memory are extended also considering the life stories before the disease, identifications, values, religion, gender, choices. I notice that the factors that constitute the consciousness, and that appear in the narrative, present multiple fragments of the time previous to the experience with the disease, but also its effects, that continue to transform the subjectivities. A bigger narrative plasticity reveals itself against the opening of another sluice by the accommodations with the disease in life. In the experience of helplessness, between the hope for healing in the future and the fear of the loss of neurological faculties, this plasticity shows itself in the narratives as strength.Item Open Access Poder e representação em histórias de vida: entre ausências e presenças(2017-05-15) Szymczak, Maureen Bartz; Alvarenga Sena Venera, RaquelThis article is a cutting of the in-progress investigation called Life Histories and Cultural Heritage: challenges of Museum of the Person, which arguments that life stories of ordinary people may be valued and affirmed as cultural heritage. The research analyzes the senses life histories have at the Museum of the Person and purposes to discuss those histories considering them as cultural heritage on the memory and identity recognition in the contemporary context. In this paper, we use Michel Foucault’s thoughts (2004) to notice the power operation as the exercise that passes through all the subjects horizontally, including the power of the narrator about its publishable history, the witness’ incontestable power. Based on the book The order of things (FOUCAULT, 2007), we intent to realize how the representation of life works on the related stories. The construction of the presence of a life absent from history is questioned. Does the narrative have the representative function of a life? Agreeing with the biographic illusion idea, we ask if the narratives are representations or creations of absent lives. The Museum of the Person is a virtual and collaborative museum that objectives to record and preserve the life histories of ordinary people, making those histories available in archives. We understand the contemporaneity presents changes on identity formations in a displacement flow on the memory political game. Then, we interrogate this place, which is able to proportionate to the subjects the construction of life narratives more or less coherent, with organized memories in a stability illusion. In this perspective, we also ask the Museum of the Person as a space that leads to the subject’s empowerment and audibility in the contemporaneity. Would the museum be a political place of ordinary subjects?