“Não sou capaz de juntar nem três palavras, sou um nada”: a importância da apropriação da linguagem escrita no filme Minhas tardes com Margueritte

Abstract

This article aims to discuss, from the perspective of the Historical-Cultural Psychology, the genesis of the regulatory function of language and the importance of the appropriation of written language, analyzing the film "My Evenings with Margueritte" (Original: “La Tetê en Friche”, BECKER, 2010). The protagonist Germain, a French worker that had a troubled childhood at home and at school (in the sense of not favorable to learning) has little mastery of written language, and shows difficulty in planning his speeches and actions. From the contact with writing, provided by Margueritte, the protagonist lives a process of psychic change and behavioral transformations, which confirms the presuppositions of the Historical-Cultural approach which is that the appropriation of written language reorganizes the psychism and modifies the conduct. It was concluded that the voluntary act is a social process and not innate and, therefore, must necessarily be learned, having a great importance for human development