Abstract
The production and analysis of narratives is a methodological instrumental used in qualitative studies in the field of Collective Health. The article locates some grounds for the use of the concept of narrative-experience as a methodological-conceptual strategy for this research field. The paradoxical articulation always present between the terms experience and narrative is investigated and situated theoretically from the concept framework in Walter Benjamin. For this author, there is no experience except in language. This is the crucial point from which narrative experience is situated in this text as an empty nucleus syntagm, a way of surrounding the central paradox of the transmission of spirit in language qualifying the bases for the concept use as mediation between experience and culture and contributing to the methodological debate in the field of Collective Health.
Keywords:
experience; narrative; methodology; fundamentals; planning