Abstract
This paper highlights the importance of maintaining vertical consistence in narrative studies investigating human psyche. The principles of temporality and interpretability, proposed by classic authors as Bruner, Polkinghorne, Ricoeur e Sarbin, are taken as guidelines to maintain this consistence. To illustrate this idea, two narratives dealing with different themes are analyzed: one referring to school experience and the other to academic supervision of psychotherapy. For the first one the processes of segmentation and entanglement of the engaging time in the world of action compose the key-elements to analyze the meaning of school experience. For the second, different narrating times - one of the trainee and the other of the supervisor - create an interdiscourse from which meaning emerges as a consequence of the interrelationships of diverse narrating times.
Keywords
narrative; meaning; time; temporality; interpretability