The mental scenery of an elders group: stories of life and the AT-9

Abstract

The present article is the result field with the purpose of collecting identificatory data, both of individual and group reality of eight elderly people over sixty years who attend to a Brazilian group called Mais Vividos located in the Federal District of Taguatinga more specifically in an institution called SESC, in its symbolic dimension. The main aim of this research is to unravel the imaginary of the group, its creation records/emergence in the institution, development over time, history as well as the established organization as a process of welcoming these elders in the institution. These data are drawn in historical facts stored in memory, emerged for a better understanding, based on Hermeneutic foundations stabilished in holomonic processes with the analysis of stories gathered in life and imaginary, with support in the works of: Gilbert Durand, Packter, Paula Carvalho, among other authors as well as gerontology findings. It was performed with the group the Nine Elements Test archetype - AT-9, from Yves Durand, and the listening of stories of life: methodologies used in the translation of the symbolic aspects of those lives - individual and group - stored on the set of images or pictures, with the intention to known how the elders of the group face the anguish borned in the passage of time and the fear towards death. The Mental Landscape designed in this dissertation reveals important clues to the Anthropolitical reorganization, if desired by the group Mais Vividos of SESC.