Abstract
The human being is in a constant process of change and building knowledge from their relationships with themselves and others. Tensions, separations and linkages inherent in self-other relations are important to Semiotic-Cultural Constructivist Psychology. This paper discusses the construction of meaning in the APAC Penal Execution Method from the testimony of a convict in a published work that describes this method. Microgenetic analysis of the narrative content was performed. Aspects that stood out in this analysis: the I-world relation and unsettling experiences; expectations wounded and rebuilt in their self-other relationships; planning for the future and reorganization of meanings. In this particular field of research, from the standpoint of Cultural Psychology, conduction of case studies becomes relevant for discussing the network of self-other relationships that form the APAC Penal Execution Method and their processes of meaning construction.
Keywords:
semiotic-cultural constructivism; construction of meaning; convicted; criminal enforcement.