Analítica da ambiguidade: estratégia metódica para a pesquisa fenomenológica em saúde

Abstract

The strategy presented in this paper, called Analytics of ambiguity, is connected to the necessity of understanding findings in researches based on Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology. It was developed through a study of descriptions of life experiences from ten family members, members of a Mutual Help Group for caregivers of Alzheimer's patients, conducted at a university in Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Such descriptions were shown through interviews based on intercorporeal experience, during the writing of a Doctoral Dissertation in Nursing. The application of the Analytics of ambiguity to this study is consistent with other similar studies and opens up possibilities for the understanding of findings in phenomenological researches, specifically those based on the experiential ontology of Merleau-Ponty, for it enables us to recognize consciousness as something non-perceptible and perception as an always ambiguous process.

Reabilitação psicossocial segundo a perspectiva de consumidores de drogas Psychosocial rehabilitation according to drug consumers’ perspective

“…10 This technique is based on the understanding that perception operates in a phenomenal field in which we are inserted and that our experiences are always dynamic and express ambiguities; perception is presented as an ambiguous experience that can be understood only from the viewpoint of those who live it. 12 The operationalization of the Analytical Ambiguity technique in this study occurred with the following steps: transcription and organization of words in the form of texts; conducting detailed readings of the material, allowing phenomena to emerge in its own, that is, the researcher shares his perceptual experience while reading and this is recognized as intercorporeal generality. 12 It is noteworthy that all the guidelines of the National Council of Health No.…”

“…12 The operationalization of the Analytical Ambiguity technique in this study occurred with the following steps: transcription and organization of words in the form of texts; conducting detailed readings of the material, allowing phenomena to emerge in its own, that is, the researcher shares his perceptual experience while reading and this is recognized as intercorporeal generality. 12 It is noteworthy that all the guidelines of the National Council of Health No. 466, of December 12, 2012 13 , which regulates research with human beings, were taken into account.…”

Ambiguidade do cuidado na vivência do consumidor de drogas

“…Therefore, the technique has enabled the unveiling of pre-reflexive processes, which precede the articulation of the language, contributing to the suspension of the theses that things are already in themselves, and the understanding of the essential meaning underlying the intentional experience of the subjects (9) . The application of the "Analytics of Ambiguity" resembles the experience of contemplating a landscape in which, in order to perceive a figure, we must focus our eyes on the landscape and fix our look on the outline of the figure we want to see.…”

“…This process happens spontaneously, as it happens in all moments of our lives: the phenomena appear in the intertwining of the perceptive experiences in which, at every moment, they contract in the present horizons of past and future. This technique makes possible the unveiling of existential significations (background), since when we close our eyes to the conceptual significations of the experiential descriptions (figures), we open ourselves to the transcendence of other figures, and we perceive that the phenomena always appear in profile and carry other profiles with them (9) . In order to do so, we have followed all the steps proposed by the technique, which are: the organization of the experiential descriptions in the text form; exhaustive reading of the material; and the objectification of categories.…”

Mutual Help Group for Family Members of Older Adults With Dementia: Unveiling Perspectives

“…23 In this sense, we noticed that the members of the studied MHG exposed the difficulties of having a relationship among themselves outside the group space, but they reflected on the perspective of changing this condition, demonstrating the value of being in a group.…”