Abstract

OLIVEIRA, Richard de  and  MACHADO, Adriana Marcondes. Interview as an Experience, Madness as Method: Composition of an Ethics of the Encounter. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2021, vol.21, n.2, pp. 416-436. ISSN 1808-4281.  http://dx.doi.org/10.12957/epp.2021.61049.

In this paper, we present and unfold an interview procedure that breaks with a position of exteriority in Psychology research interviews. Aiming to act on discourses that address madness as an individual and psychological fact and taking Robert Schumann's life and work as a broader field of reflection on the relationship between music and madness, we conducted interviews with six of his interpreters, in order to understand the crossing between these musicians' experiences, the author's work and the madness subject. In these interviews' procedures, which we named encounter-interviews, the extent of the experience is sheltered, highlighted and explored, making the intrinsic tragicness of the music-madness relationship operate in the encounter. In order to sustain the transgressive power of such a relationship, we created a narrative path specifically for this article, a strategy we use to prevent the research object from being captured in a field of unambiguous and representational determinations. Finally, we point out that the encounter-interviews, by composing polyphonic agreements between heterogeneous elements, highlight that in the interview procedure the way of knowing is inseparable from the experience in which the communication is constituted.

Keywords : interview; experience; madness; Robert Schumann.

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