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OTHERWISE PAUL: WORD AND 

REPRESENTATION 

IN FREIRE'S THEORY

Paulo Freire, performative interpretation, word, representation.

This theoretical study, produced in multipaper format, was aimed at analyzing the concept of word, problematizing its relationship with the classical idea of representation, in Paulo Freire's theory – mainly in Pedagogy of the Oppressed, as well as in other writings that would orbit around it or seek on it support or foundation. For that, a performative interpretation of these texts was used, an exegetical method theorized by Jacques Derrida, which consists of an interpretation that transforms what it interprets. In this sense, in each of the essays that compose this thesis, it was possible to unveil and analyze aporias and apparent contradictions, making them the guiding thread for the problematization of the relationship between the concept of word and that of praxis, or those of ideology and reality, or the metaphor of the pronunciation of the world. This made it possible to produce articulations of the concept of word with notions such as performativity, real, expression, face, among others, as well as an approximation of Freire's thought with that of philosophers such as Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, Roland Barthes, Alain Badiou, Emmanuel Lévinas, etc. In this sense, the study, interpreting performatively these relations, could open up space for thinking otherwise the notion of word in Freire's thinking as a whole, bringing to light its still unexplored potentialities.