VIOLENCE AND HUMAN RESCUE: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL LOOK OVER SALVADOR´S PERIPHERY

Abstract

The article reports a research whose objective was to understand the fundamental lived experiences (traduzo vivência como experiência vivida – lived experiences) of people inserted in a context of violence and investigate the repercussion of these experiences in their formative process, taking as reference the phenomenology of Edith Stein. The research was carried out in the neighborhood of Uruguay, in the outskirts of Salvador (BA) and the access to the lived experiences was done through producing a daily journal and open interviews. We carried out analyzes of the individual course of four participants and fifteen interviews in which eight fundamental lived experiences were described and analyzed from a formative point of view: improvisation; death; woundedness; violence; solidarity; periphery; maternity and religiosity. The study showed Edith Stein's contribution to the understanding of violence from an anthropological point of view and to a more humane approach to those who inhabit the peripheries. It showed that even in a context of violence, the person is able to position himself freely in the face of external situations and determinations, structuring and seeking perspectives of life beyond what is given. In this sense, a possible intervention in contexts of violence would be to help people to distance themselves from the lived and to strengthen themselves internally in order to elaborate personal responses, actively participating in itself formation and in the transformation of its context.