Masculinidades nômades: transformação e movimento, arte e pertencimento – tornar-se homem na contemporaneidade

• Autor(a) principal: Lima, Raul Alves Barreto
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.pucsp.br/jspui/handle/handle/39725
• topic: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA; Homens; Masculinidades; Poesia; Transformação; Psicologia analítica; Men; Masculinities; Poetry; Transformation; Analytical psychology

Discussions relative to men and expressions of masculinities have become increasingly widespread and have reached different fields of knowledge in contemporariness, enrichening ways of understanding gender based on relationality and all the multiple forms of existing and giving meaning to experiences. With the goal of understanding how men perceive their experiences in relation to masculinities, we reflected on the poetic and peripheral art produced in poetry slams and soirees. Our general objective was to investigate the subjective gaze and the meanings that male poets and participants of poetry slams and soirees in the city of São Paulo and the Greater São Paulo region have of their masculinities and their experiences of being men in the periphery. The specific objectives were to analyze the possible conflicts associated to the exercise of masculinities and any possible challenges; to investigate whether the participation in poetry soirees and slams can contribute to the perception of personal change in the lives of these men; to analyze symbolic images regarding the expressions of masculinities. In the methodology, we initially administered online forms with closed-ended questions that were sent to virtual soiree and slam communities. Based on an ethnographic perspective, we participated in five events to better understand these artistic and cultural spaces. Using a qualitative approach, we carried out intensive interviews with five male poets who participated in the poetry soirees and slams to gain a more in-depth understanding of themes relative to the expressions of masculinities, their meanings, conflicts, and forms of overcoming them, their interpersonal relationships, belonging to the collectives, and their relationship with the art. The data were analyzed based on the content of the thematic groups and the themes that emerged later in the interviews, all grounded in the theoretical framework of analytical psychology and other fields of knowledge. The results pointed to transformative potentials – both individual and collective – based on the group belonging in poetry slams and soirees, and of poetic art as an expressive and creative tool. Participating in the events demonstrated the strength with which themes relative to gender, race, class, and sexualities were manifested as ways of denouncing and affirming broader ways of living identities and subjectivities. The interviews showed men's capacity of deepening in intimacy and affective/emotional questions in their histories, retrieving current and past memories, and moments which connected individual and cultural life while talking about the processes of resignification and change in their masculinities in the alternative and non-hegemonic senses, their personal relations, and their world views