Abstract

HARTMANN, Sara  and  FONSECA, Tania Mara Galli. To write a life: happening (événement) and biographeme. Aletheia [online]. 2010, n.33, pp. 84-94. ISSN 1413-0394.

This article discusses the theme of life writing, in a field of problematization in which it differs from an ordering of signs that emerges to the researcher. It integrates the experience of writing lives of archive, in the research project "Clinical Potency of Memoirs of Madness", whose field is the Collection of the Creativity Workshop in São Pedro Psychiatric Hospital, in Porto Alegre. The theoretical investigation on the concept of happenning (événement), by Gilles Deleuze, makes of writing an arrow pointing to what else can a body, a research, a language. The task that arises is that of extracting of a life its potential, on the aspiration of being fair to what insists, and resists to be signified. It is in such a way that we find the biographems, Roland Barthes' life writing tool, that suggests a search for the unjustifiable details of an existence. To tell what survives to the temptation of making it fulfilled, total, self-explanatory. We seek to translate, therefore, life in creation state, such as an index of singularities that goes beyond personal existence.

Keywords : Writing; Psychiatric hospital; Happening (Événement; Biographeme.