THE PRODUCTION OF THE SUBJECTIVITY ON THE INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT OF A CATHOLIC SEMINARY

This reseach aims to study the production of the subjectivity on the institutional context of a Catholic Seminary. This is a boarding school in which 70 seminarists study Philosophy for 3 years, as a preparatory activity to priesthood. The way of being of the institutional life was researched throug...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: BENELLI, Sílvio José, COSTA-ROSA, Abílio da
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2002
País:Brasil
Institución:Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas (PUC-CAMPINAS)
Repositorio:Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.periodicos.puc-campinas.edu.br:article/6647
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.puc-campinas.edu.br/estpsi/article/view/6647
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:psicologia e religião
produção da subjetividade
análise institucional
seminário católico
instituições totais
internato escolar
observação participante
psychology and religion
production on subjectivity
institutional analysis
catholic seminary
total institutions
boarding school
participating observation
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Sumario:This reseach aims to study the production of the subjectivity on the institutional context of a Catholic Seminary. This is a boarding school in which 70 seminarists study Philosophy for 3 years, as a preparatory activity to priesthood. The way of being of the institutional life was researched through the participating observation and half-structuredinterviews were carried on in order to make out how the seminarist experiences his life on the institutional context. The preliminary outcome shows that we can understand the seminary as a total institution, a placecomprising residence, work, study, background, sociability and entertainment, where lots of people living alike but apart from the well-off society lead a reclusive life and formally administrated. Life in theinstitutional context of the Seminary brings about several facets of subjectivity to the seminarist. There is a deep loss on the personal autonomy, freedom of going out and coming back, acting and deciding as well, causing a behavior of excessive dependence, resistence of changing, conversion to the proposed role and fratenal rivalry. The contradiction found between the repressive apparatus and the participating speech seems to cause the people characteristics set byfragmentation and refusal.