Notas sobre o uso de imagens visuais nas pesquisas em Psicologia

Abstract

This article has the objective of presenting some reflections about the use of visual images in Psychology researches. In the first part we discuss how Human Sciences, and Photography, which came up in the XIX century, shared the hegemonic view of Sciences based on the positivist assumptions and produced prejudicial theories on individuals or groups considered inferior or deprived of reasoning, just like primitive or savage, criminals and crazy people. In the second part, we propose a discussion about gaze and the anthropological task of searching for what is familiar in strangeness and to consider strange what is familiar in the relation established by the researcher with the other and with himself. In the third part we present some works with qualitative researches in Psychology. In the article we aimed to show how important the interdisciplinary dialogue is, by recognizing experiences in other fields of knowledge and subjects, including non-academic ones such as the photojournalism. Far beyond the technical domain in the use of images, we emphasize the need of critical thinking about ethics in the relation with the other. Eventually, we tried to show how thin are the borders between objectivity and subjectivity, strange and familiar, document and fiction and, also, Science and Arts.