A menor distância entre duas pessoas: ser-clown

Abstract

THE SHORTER DISTANCE BETWEEN TWO PERSONS: BEING-CLOWN: The objective of this research is to understand how the process of encounter of personal clown re-signifies the corporeity of the actors, as well as the aspects experienced in this corporeity that experiences the personal clown. With the qualitative bias, was used the phenomenological method of research in Psychology, based on the french philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty. It was done from an audio interview recorded from a guiding question that presented unfolding. There were participants (five) people, who performed clowns perfomances. Based on the data collected, the following categories of analysis were identified: Historicity of the person clown; Temporality and the fading of limits; Clown and the re-encounter of itself; The experience of availability: being-with. Through the analysis it was possible to understand that the participants found in the experience of being clown not only an artistic manifestation or comic possibility of acting, but also a means of becoming available in their experiences, which provides a new perception of themselves as corporeity, of the perceived world and in the construction of other modes of existence.