Аннотация:This work aims to investigate the practices of hospital volunteering by means of interviews with volunteers, in order to understand the production of the subjectivity in the speech of these institutional agents.It undertakes initially a historical survey on voluntary work, as well as on the birth of the hospital and related charitable practices.The theoretical discussion begins with the problematization of the christian commandment of love for the neighbor to the light of Sigmund Freud psychoanalysis and its new reading by Françoise Dolto.It also discusses the desconstruction of the subject in Michel Foucault and its relations with the concept of "hinge-subject" in Marlene Guirado.For the research semidirected interviews with eight volunteers in hospitals, proceeding from four distinct groups, are carried out.The interviews are analyzed with the discourse analysis method elaborated by Marlene Guirado.From these analyses, it is evidenced that the voluntary work has as institutional object not the cure, but well-being.Although the recurrences in the interviewed person's speeches are remarkable, the procedures and relations constituted by, and constituent of, voluntary work are showed in diverse ways in different groups.Its practice is developed interstitially in the contraflow of the hospital institution.The production of subjectivity in voluntary work is accomplished by the various ways the possible nearness relations between volunteers and patients are constructed.
