Abstract

REY, Javier  and  GRANESE, Andrés. Cartography as a method in psychology research. Psicol. Conoc. Soc. [online]. 2019, vol.9, n.1, pp.221-245.  Epub June 01, 2019. ISSN 1688-7026.  https://doi.org/10.26864/pcs.v9.n1.4.

This paper intends to make a methodological contribution to psychology research, developing some characteristics of cartography as a valid method in research. In a first instance, a brief conceptual description of cartography is performed through Deleuze’s and Guattari’s contributions in the field, taking into consideration their development of rhizome. Likewise, theoretical background is presented related to the methodological use in anthropology and psychology from authors such as Néstor Perlongher, Suely Rolnik, Félix Guattari and several researchers from the Brazilian academy. In a second instance, three topics concerning cartography are approached, which emerge from the experience of the authors as part of the writing process of their psychology master degree thesis: the work about happening through the course of research, devicezation as a suitable concept for these works and the force field that diagrams the research problem. In the concluding section, the cartography proposal is problematized, more than a methodological option, as an epistemic overflow inherent to research practice in psychology, therefore giving account about subject-object delimitation crisis, in the construction of discontinuous process and affection-representation tension.

Keywords : Cartography; research; psychology.

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