Tramando sonhos: infâncias e representações.

Abstract

This dissertation seeks to access and allow reflection on the childhood dream representations and the multiple ways children have of seeing and understanding the world. It aims to expand our knowledge about the universe of meanings and representations of children, focusing on dreams and the principle of hope; dialogue with critical cultural studies, aiming at the place of childhood as a critique of culture; and finally, to think of research writing in childhood as an exercise of otherness. The dream is understood as a waking and critical dream of culture as the contributions of Walter Benjamin (2006), as a hope based on Ernst Bloch (2005), and as a daydream according to Gaston Bachelard (1985). Through the contributions of the childhood sociology (SARMENTO 2005), I understanding the child as a producer of knowledge and culture, and I take poetry as the axis of translation cultures childhood (BUSSOLETTI, 2007). I take an approach through the assumptions of surrealist ethnography (CLIFFORD, 2008), possessing the dream catcher as an element of access to the childhood universe. From a writing in fragments (BENJAMIN, 2006), I think of the montage as a possible deviation, which allows me to go through a writing and poetic experience of childhood. Taking childhoods and dreams as a moment of reflexivity, the representations are revealed as testimonies of culture that awaken and evidence the cultural malaise in which we live.