Abstract:
This thesis, as a theoretical-bibliographic study, has as its goal to comprehend affectivity as a resource for the emancipation of the individual in modernity through the prism approximating the cognitivist theory of Henri Wallon. It begins with a systematic review of the state of the art in Wallon, having as an epistemological horizon the contributions of Psychology, Philosophy, Education and Theology. The research of a qualitative nature, based itself on a humanist-interpretivist approach about the construct of emancipation and affectivity, having as a category of analysis the constructs of emancipation of the philosophers: Marx, Kant, Adorno, the Educator Paulo Freire and also, about emancipation from the perspective of the apostle Paul, using as resource the Theology of Liberation. The constructs of affectivity of Rousseau, Comenius and Michel Henry were also analyzed. After the presentation and analysis of the respective philosophers, educators and theologians, we went on to an approximative approach to the thinking of Wallon about affectivity and its possible relations to the construct of emancipation. At the end, it was possible to understand that the concept of affectivity proposed by Wallon in his psychogenetic theory focuses on a systemic and integrative view of the evolutional process and its direct relation with emotion, feeling and passion, favoring a more humanist perception, pointing out paths to a possible affective emancipation in social relations.
