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This article aims to establish, in the light of Semiotic-Cultural Constructivism in Psychology, a contribution to the research of creative processes through a reflection on the emergence of the new in the relationship between self-other-world. It is intended to advance in the classic approaches to creativity, by focusing on the unusual and ambiguous, affective-singularizing and, simultaneously, everyday-cultural face of the perspective of the possible and the new in the course of human action. In this way, the article focuses on fiction as a psychic reality that participates in the intersubjective field inherent to creative dynamics, as well as addresses affectivity in the Boeschian grammar from the place of the ambivalence and the dynamics between myths and fantasms in the forms of meaning construction in the face of disturbing experiences and uncertainty about the future. As an interpretive exercise, this text discusses a comic strip by a pair of elementary school students about a character who studies in a school where nothing was prohibited. The discussion of the data seeks to broaden the reading about the ways of fictionalizing the lived experience, pervasive to the everyday plot of the self, and its relationship with creativity in the future of human action.
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Original text: Ao ir em direção ao não verificável, a ficção multiplica ao infinito as possibilidades de tratamento. Não nega uma suposta realidade objetiva, ao contrário, submerge-se em sua turbulência, desdenhando a atitude ingênua que consiste em pretender saber de antemão como essa realidade se conforma. Não é uma claudicação ante tal ou qual ética da verdade, mas sim a busca de uma ética um pouco menos rudimentar. (2012, p. 3).
First frame: Maxueu in: His day at school; Second frame: This is Maxueu/This is the school where everything is allowed/Maxueu is going to school. Third frame: Board/This is Maxueu sleeping. He always sleeps at school. Fourth frame: Maxueu woke up and went skateboarding. Fifth frame: This is Lorinaldo/Maxueu is stupid. He dresses as a girl/Maxueu got sad. Sixth frame: Lorinaldo, it is not because everything in our school is allowed that the you could bully people/Maxueu overcame the bullying.
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Pinheiro, M.A., Simão, L.M. Creativity and Fiction: Interpretative Horizons on the Emergence of the New in the Relationship Between Individual and Culture. Integr. psych. behav. 55, 1–17 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-020-09583-8
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