INTERLACING MEMORY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CONSTRUCTION

Abstract

Our article presents preliminary reflections regarding the narrative concepts,

experience and memory in Walter Benjamin and some notes on verbal history. In the

attempt to apprehend the substratum of the sexuality imaginary of the initial years teachers

of the basic education - our current subject of inquiry -, we opt to Thematic Verbal History

as metodological instrument, for considering it a possibility of interlacing the orality with

the writing, for in there´s distinct values. In elapsing of the work with collaborators verbal

histories, for the process of understanding of the narratives we perceived the requirement

of the theoretical apprehension of the experience concepts, memory and narrative, which

gain meaning from the dialogue with Walter Benjamin. We identified, also with the

teacher´s interviews, the difficulty to interchange experiences, what, according to this same

theoretician, can be the result of the new form of work organization in the modern

capitalism, of the workers´ specialization in specific functions, the division in different

places and spaces, of the acceleration of the productive process, aspects that unchain the

individual, solitary experiences, and of its symbolic death. With base in these references, the

teacher´s lines - collaborators of the research that originated these initial theoretical

reflections - will be considered as narratives full of lived experiences, socialization of

traditions, sensibility, images, individual histories constructed in collective history, of

people located in one determined place and is about this place they talk, they feel, they

recollect, they mean and re-mean.