A construção ideológica do sujeito coletivo nos relatos de dependentes químicos

Abstract

In this paper, I analyzed, according to Life Stories approach, the narratives of drug-addicted people which were found on a website of the drug rehabilitation and treatment clinic www.ctviva.com.br. The realization that the subject is self-reflexive in addition to the narrative is a genre in which it comments on the lived facts are concepts espoused in this article. I could find common characteristics among the reported narratives that integrate the group’s opinion into the same ideological position. I could also find a collective subject, considering the narratives made by the drug-addicted people who were under treatment into the reported clinic whose site was mentioned before. That site displays the 10 narratives that composed this corpus research. That analysis focused the construction of the process that indicates a social position of group, considering three categories: key-expressions; key-ideas and anchorage, according to Lefèvre (2005). The first one indicates excerpts of testimonials that facilitates the key-words` identification; the second one, the key-words, indicates the meanings of each testimonial, and the last one, the anchorage, indicates the ideology of the discourse. Managing such categories enabled the identification of all the narratives as situation category, as proposed by Bertaux (2010). The results indicated two criteria that establish relationships of power: family and the good treatment. The construction of a collective subject evidenced the ideologies of the clinic and of the treatments that were given to the patients.