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The use of diaries in psychological research: The creative and dialogical intimacy of self-other-world relationships in the context of cultural mutations

2022; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 28; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1177/1354067x221111434

1461-7056

Marina Assis Pinheiro, Clarissa Maria Dubeux Lopes Barros, Roberta De Sousa Mélo,

Identity, Memory, and Therapy

This paper discusses the potential for accessing the intersubjective psychic dynamics that the use of oral diaries about everyday life can offer to Psychology, from an ideographic, cultural, and qualitative perspective. Based on the authors’ experience with this research activity mediated by instant messaging applications, we argue about the singularity produced by such a field of elaboration of meanings regarding the affective, ambiguous and potentially creative and authorial face of such enunciations. The use of this research instrument took place during critical periods of the COVID-19 pandemic, a historical moment marked by a profound decentering of forms of life, which was the driving force behind significant cultural mutations both in the personal and collective spheres. We propose that the instrument provided interpretative access to three fundamental records of experience, namely: corporeality, temporality, and the meaning-making process.