Abstract

LIMA, Priscilla Melo Ribeiro de; VIANA, Terezinha de Camargo  and  LIMA, Sostenes Cezar de. Aesthetics and poetics of aging on autobiographical narratives: A psychoanalytic study. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2015, vol.15, n.1, pp.58-78. ISSN 1808-4281.

This study aims to investigate, under the lens of psychoanalysis, the (re) construction of the self in old age. The autobiographical writing points to a poetic and esthetic of the self while building itself, and allows the subject seeks in its history tools to re-enroll in the present. Another highlight is the relation of the elderly with time. The perception of the finitude of life emphasizes the feeling of helplessness and distress. The remembrance may arise as a way to deal with such distress. We conclude that the subject poiesis enabled by the writing of itself might help him to deal with the present and projecting himself into the future. This can (re) open ways for a reconstruction of the social and symbolic place of the elder.

Keywords : old age; psychoanalysis; poiesis; aesthetics; autobiographical memory.

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