Etude du temps vecu chez les personnes agees de deux micro-cultures bresiliennes
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Abstract EN:
This thesis presents the results of a study on the way 47 elderly persons of two micro-cultures, one indian and one negro, in the state of paraiba in north east brazil experience changes in life with time. Clinical interviews were carried out with two groups of ederly persons in order to study the way they represent physical and psychological age-related transformations in time. The data collected allowed for a clinical analysis on psychotemporality. The perception of physical weakening in relation to work induces an ego crisis with is translated into frequent remembering of the past. The present time is experiences as overcharges with difficulties and future is felt as narrowing and full of incertainties. The results show no substantial differences in the agind related perception of the two groups srveyed. However, the ederly people of the negro community, which by tradition are more attached to manual work, feel more the narcissic pain caused by the loss of physical capacities during agin. The clinical approach show the caractheristics of the experienced life changes of the elderly people and inform about their personal ways to defend themselves in relation to these changes, about their personal conflicts, their expectations of support from their social environnement and indicate how the mind revives past experiences to fight against an insatisfactory present.
Abstract FR:
Cette these etudie le temps vecu chez 47 personnes agees de deux microcultures (une indienne et l'autre noire) de l'etat de paraiba de la region nordest du bresil. Nous avons realise des entretiens cliniques aupres d'un echantillon et nous avons observe principalement la facon dont elles se representent leurs transformations liees a l'age dans le cours du temps, les changements du corps et le developpement psychologique. Les donnees recueillies nous ont permis de developper une analyse clinique a la lumiere de la psychotemporalite. La constatation de l'amoindrissement physique face au travail provoque une crise du moi qui se traduit par l'appel frequent au passe. Le present est ressenti comme surcharge de difficultes ; quant au futur, il apparait retreci et assombri d'incertitudes. Les resultats montrent que la population enquetee ne permet pas de differencier les groupes ethniques. Toutefois la micro-culture noire, liee p@ar tradition aux taches necessitant la force physique, insiste davantage sur la blessure narcissique que represente la perte des capacites corporelles au fur et a mesure du vieillissement. L'approche clinique montre la qualite de l'experience vecue du vieillissement des sujets et renseigne sur leurs resistances, leurs conflits individuels, leurs attentes par rapport a l'entourage social, et indique comment la psychee cherche a prolonger les signes du passe pour lutter contre un present insatisfaisant.