A pesquisa intervenção como exercício ético e a metodologia como paraskeué / The intervention research as an ethical exercise and the methodology as an paraskeué

A partir da leitura dos estudos de Michel Foucault sobre a ascese como exercício ético e a paraskeué como equipamento deste exercício, traçamos possíveis relações destes elementos teóricos com as estratégias metodológicas propostas pela pesquisa intervenção e pela intervenção fotográfica. A reflexão teórica deste estudo sugere que tais estratégias são condições de possibilidade para que o processo da pesquisa se constitua como um exercício ético. As referências teóricas estão baseadas no livro "A Hermenêutica do Sujeito" de Michel Foucault e em artigos sobre a pesquisa intervenção e a intervenção fotográfica, indicando esta metodologia como um "equipamento" da ascese na pesquisa.(AU)

Based on the Michel Foucault's studies about the ascesis as an ethical exercise and the paraskeué as an instrument of this exercise, the possible relations of these theoretical elements with the methodological strategies proposed by the research's intervention and the photographic intervention were traced. The theoretical thinking of this study suggests that these strategies are possibility conditions for the research's process be constituted as an ethical exercise. The theoretical references are based on the book "The Hermeneutics of the Subject" by Michel Foucault and articles about the intervention research and photographic intervention, designating this methodology as an "instrument" of the research's ascesis.(AU)

Psicología ascética y psicología epistémica / Ascetic psychology and epistemic psychology

En psicología las tendencias ascéticas (purificación, cuidado y transformación del alma) y epistémicas (conocimiento sistemático sobre el alma), presentes desde la antigüedad hasta nuestros días, son evidencia del fundamento irrenunciable que la filosofía representa para esta disciplina. Con la ciencia moderna y su paradigma galileano algunos pensadores creyeron posible dejar atrás el pasado filosófico y hacer de la psicología una ciencia natural. El presente artículo destaca que esa herencia filosófica es esencial en la psicología, señala que no todas sus escuelas pretenden constituirse en ciencia, y muestra que las tendencias ascéticas y epistémicas pueden articularse dialécticamente en la psicología.

Two tendencies have been present in psychology since antiquity to our days: the ascetic tendency (purification, self care and transformation of the soul) and the epistemic tendency (systematic knowledge of the soul). Both of them are evidence of the undeniable philosophical foundation of psychology. With modern science and its Galilean paradigm, some thinkers believed that it was possible to leave behind the philosophical past and turn psychology into a natural science. This paper emphasizes that philosophical inheritance is essential for psychology and points out that not all the schools in that discipline intend to become a science. Finally, the paper shows that ascetic and epistemic tendencies can be dialectically articulated in psychology.