TEMPO, FEMININO E IDENTIDADE: A IMAGEM FEMININA NA VELHICE / TIME, FEMININE AND IDENTITY: THE FEMININE IDENTITY IN OLD AGE
AUTOR(ES)
MONICA CARVALHO PINTO BOCLIN
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2003
RESUMO
Old age is a very recente category, in spite of many people having studied already this sector of the population. Nevertheless, the image of na elder in Brazil is still the object of prejudice as a consequence of lack of information and communication. In the population of old persons, the contingent of women is more willing to express itself and struggle for a better quality of life. Women have suffered throughout history because their value as individuals was not appreciated by society, since they were considered inferior to men and therefore, dependent on them. S. Freud has shown that this historical and cultural prejudice has had great influence on the psychology of women. It is obvious in the education of the female population tha presents itself at the clinic where this study has been conducted. Using psychoanalyses as a theoretical reference , this paper has as an object the research of feminine image in old age. The population used in this study is that of the women treated at the psychology clinic in an ambulatory for the elder of the UFRJ-Instituto de Psiquiatria- CDA. The quality of life of this population, which has been growing, has been the main objective of the psychology clinic. The clinic has gained in importance as an agent that is helping the acquisition of mental health and equilibrium by the women who look for help because thy feel sad, anxious and afraid. Listening to their suffering, we were able to draw an image of women facing old age and consider some of the possible causes of their unhappiness. In association with psychoanalyses, and based on theories that emphasize the importance of the body and of non-verbal signs of affection in the psychic development of individual, we have concluded that the feminine image, which is sustained in the period of life that corresponds to the decadence of the young body, symbol of the feminine in our culture, is the result of a satisfactory process of identity acquisition in early life or of an adequate process of analysis in later life, when the previous identity acquisition was not satisfactory.
ASSUNTO(S)
identidade clinical psychology envelhecimento aging feminine identity feminino psicologia clinica
