Trajectory of life, silence and pain materialized in the affective objects of an elderly nursing home
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https://doi.org/10.23925/2176-901X.2019v22i1p381-403Keywords:
Old age, Affective objects, Subjectivity.Abstract
The article is an anthropological and psychological analysis on the relation between the personal artifacts of an elderly woman and the psychic suffering accumulated in her life trajectory. The rings refer to the security provided by the mother, grandmother and mistress. The thirds of prayers symbolized the affections and sufferings. The dolls reports the sexual abuse practiced by the grandfather, a symbolic form of her prevent the violation of the body physical, something she could not prevent in her real life.
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2019-03-30
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Rigueira, M. M. G., & Farias, R. de C. P. (2019). Trajectory of life, silence and pain materialized in the affective objects of an elderly nursing home. Revista Kairós-Gerontologia, 22(1), 381–403. https://doi.org/10.23925/2176-901X.2019v22i1p381-403
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