A CLÍNICA PSICANALÍTICA COM “VELHOS(AS)”: SINGULARIDADES, POTENCIALIDADES E DESAFIOS

Abstract

Silva, M.S. The psychoanalytical Clinic With “Old People”: Potentials, Singularities and Challenges. (Undergraduate Final work). Departamento de Psicologia, Centro de Ciências Humanas, Letras e Artes, Universidade Federal da Paraíba – UFPB, João Pessoa – PB, Brasil. In recent years, Brazilian society has been confronted with demographic data that point to a process of population-ageing process as a result of a decrease in birth and mortality rates, influenced by technological advances and by improvements in social and economic conditions, whose expression has been the increase in Life expectancy. We can say that, nowadays, the “old ones” are the new characters that enter the scene. However, in contemporary societies, elderly people tends to be trapped between capitalist and scientific discourses, which seek to silence them, requesting the old ones to get rid of the marks of their advance age in order to be accepted, adopting the brands and symbols of “eternal youth”, through consumption practices. Based on the above, the present work aims to understand the place of old aged in the arguments of science and capital discourses in addition to its incidences on the subjectivation processes of contemporary people, also investigating the place of old aged in the analyst's speech and in the analytical device. It is about questioning the potential, uniqueness and challenges of a clinic with “old people”. Methodologically, I used bibliographical research and a qualitative field research, whose data were collected through semistructured interviews with northeastern psychoanalysts with clinical experience with the eiderly. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews, carried out digitally (Google Meet) due to pandemic related to the new Corona Virus; and were treated through content analysis, proposed by Bardin (2011). The data allow the enunciation of some potentials, singularities and challenges, not from a clinic of “old” subjects, but from a clinic of “subjects in old age”.