Female social roles and cultural conserves in relation to money: cartograph of a thematic psychodrama workshop

Abstract

In this article, we report and discuss a psychodramatic workshop developed with a group of women about their relationship with money. The group was integrated by five women, and the workshop was composed by four meetings of three hours each. The discussion was based on the concepts developed by Moreno about psychodrama, in connection with the cartographic method of analysis, as suggested by Deleuze and Guattari. Based on the dramatized sketches, cartography of the subjective production lines was designed. The cultural conserves that reproduce the patriarchal ideology and that are manifested on the roles played by women and on their subordination in inter-relationships, and which in turn constitutes an obstacle to their mental health, was taken as a reference of analysis. Focusing on the composition of those lines in the production of the invisible barrier that interferes on how women deal with money, it was also the aim of this research to produce ruptures on the modes of existence of this subordination through the exercise of spontaneity.