Espiral narrativa do adicto em recuperação através do Programa de 12 passos de Narcóticos Anônimos

Abstract

Addiction is a disease marked by the symptoms of obsession and compulsion. Although it is incurable, the sufferer of this disease—the addict—can find relief from his alienation in Narcotics Anonymous (NA)'s Twelve Steps program, which is a worldwide fellowship of men and women for whom drugs have become a bigger problem. At NA meetings, the addict's recovery is through sharing, which is a kind of life narrative. In this work, we intend to analyze some of these life narratives in light of the theory about life narratives by Bertaux (2010), for whom they are an act of telling. Ricoueur (1995), with its narrative spiral, will also support our analysis. In addition, the concept of discursive formation, by Michel Pêcheux and that of stigma, by Erving Goffman, should help us to develop the concept of interrrativity, since the narrative of an addict or addict seems, due to identification, to reproduce itself in the narratives of other addicts. The corpus will consist of life narratives collected through addicts' shares published in the Basic Text of Narcotics Anonymous. The central question that we propose to answer is: How does the discursive formation of recovering addicts in the 12-step program of Narcotics Anonymous influence, through the narrative of life, in the construction of their emancipation? To try to reach an answer to this question, we intend to be guided by Bertaux's ethnosociology (2010).