Práticas de Leitura e Governo da Vida: a literatura de auto-ajuda

• Autor(a) principal: Penzim, Adriana Maria Brandão
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/15190
• topic: Reading Practices; Governmentality; Self-help Literature; Práticas de Leitura; Governamentalidade; Literatura de Auto-Ajuda; Técnicas de autoajuda; Autogerenciamento; Livros e leitura; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA::PSICOLOGIA SOCIAL

This study focuses on the self-help reading practice, which the main objective is to analyze in a genealogical perspective, its emergence, conditions of production and operation mode, and its implications in a liberal style of existence. At the light of the Foulcaltian analytic, it is postulated that such literature, understood as discursive formation, is intrinsically connected to the rationales and technologies of power turned to the individual s affirmation, that self-entrepreneurs as human-capital. Using as reference the concept of governmentality, it is brought to light that such literature associates with microprocesses of conduct government pertained to a governmental reasoning that aims on achieving thought minimal government, maximum efficacy. The investigative track was developed throughout different aspects, intimately interconnected, which included detailed field search, reading and analysis of self- help literature and interviews with readers. The report begins at the discussion over the continuous and systematic spread of teaching that, to a countless level, basis itself on actuality as conductor of our conducts, for, therefore, introduce a discussion over the Foucaultian conception of practice central to the analysis and guide to the reflection consequently developed with the intention of revealing, on the self-help reading practices, possible interconnections between truth production, self techniques and government of others