A identidade como problema de pesquisa

Abstract

This essay present a proposal of investigation of the identity in the perspective of Critical Social Psychology. Start show the development of the studies and interventions in Social Psychology occurred as technologies for the production of identity politics, adaptation and eugenics in Brazil until its questioning during the years1960 and 1970. Therefore, it is analyzed the conditions that became possible the crisis in Social Psychology, the specificity of the Latin American response to the crisis and its permanence in the contemporary. These questions is a background for the discussion of the proposal of Silvia Lane about the construction of a Brazilian Critical Social Psychology and prepare the reader to the propositions of Antonio Ciampa about the comprehension of the identity as metamorphosis. Finally, is presented the proposalof the research of identity in the perspective of Critical Social Psychology developed by the author of the essay and his collaborators