Emoções e escrita: a escrita como uma ferramenta catártica e transformadora de narrativas pessoais

Carollina da Costa Barbosa; William Soares do Santos

doi:10.23925/2318-7115.2025v46i1e67943

Authors

Carollina da Costa Barbosa Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. https://orcid.org/0009-0006-2124-7872
William Soares do Santos Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8291-0379

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23925/2318-7115.2025v46i1e67943

Keywords:

narrative studies, emotions, writing, catharsis, personal narratives

Abstract

This article aims to investigate the use of writing as a cathartic tool, which enables the transformation of personal narratives through its regulares practice. The re-signification of memories through repeated narratives plays a fundamental role in the construction and reconstruction of individual and collective identities. The theoretical foundation of this study is based on the narrative studies of Labov (1972), Polkinghorne (1988), Mishler (1991; 2002), Järvinen (2004) and Santos (2022), as well as the theory of dialogism, as presented by Holquist (1990) from the Bakhtin Circle. The interrelationships between art, emotions, Aristotelian catharsis and narrative creation arising from writing practice are analyzed in the light of the theories of Spinoza (1667; 2009), Vigotsky (2001), Chauí (2002), Smyth & Nazarian (2007) and Faria, Dias & Camargo (2019). Veloso and Busarello (2018) highlight the importance of affect and emotions in academic research and their impact on social praxis, while Knowles, Wearing & Campos (2011) and Smyth & Nazarian (2007) offer definitions and discuss the effects of expressive writing. The analysis includes an interview with a writer during the process of creating a work of fiction, with the aim of investigating how writing practice contributes to mental and emotional balance, as well as to the construction and resignification of her personal narratives.

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Author Biographies

Carollina da Costa Barbosa, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.

Carollina da Costa Barbosa holds a Bachelor's degree in Portuguese and English Language and Literature from UFRJ and is currently a Master's student in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Applied Linguistics (PIPGLA), specializing in the research area of Discourse and Social Practices.

William Soares do Santos, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.

William Soares dos Santos is a professor at the Faculty of Education at UFRJ, where he teaches Portuguese/Italian Language Teaching Methodology. He is also a professor in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Applied Linguistics (PIPGLA) and the Graduate Program in Neo-Latin Letters (PPGLEN), where he serves as the coordinator. He was a visiting professor at the Università Federico II in Naples in 2019, 2022, and 2023. His research focuses on Narrative Studies in relation to Education, Teacher Training, Performances in specific contexts (such as religious and educational), and Reading Processes of Brazilian, Italian, and English literatures.

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