THE "WANT TO GO HOME" IN THE ALZHEIMER: TRACES OF IDENTITY AND SUBJECTIVITY IN AN EMERGING NARRATIVE DURING THE APPLICATION OF A NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST

Abstract

This article seeks to explore notions of identity and subjectivity in narratives or autobiographical elements that emerge in clinical contexts. For this, we analyze an interaction that happens in a clinical neuropsychological consultation with application of a test on an Alzheimer's patient. With the analysis, we sought to draw a network of meanings between reports of caregivers of Alzheimer's patients who report the "wanting to go home" and other possibilities to understand the threads of memory that mix places and time. The enunciative practices analyzed refer to the Benjaminian formulation: narrating in the ruins of the narration.