Growing old: interpretant temporality?!?

Abstract

A research work developed from the field rupture psychoanalytic method, in the sense proposed by Fabio Herrmann. The concept of the unconscious is transmuted into relative and plural unconscious, understood as the logic regulating human relations or the phenomena under investigation. This text is circumscribed by the apprehensions of becoming old and the possible creations/inventions of a specific temporality in which one is no longer only what one apprehends to be, but also what the often conflicting confluence says about the way the other sees the one who grows old. Thus, we seek through a questioning-interpreting methodological posture to unveil some constitutive rules of the reality-world in the aging process, as well as the vicissitudes of instincts/drives, which no longer seem to pulsate in the familiar measure. Following conjectures regarding the principle of the absurd, in which one glimpses, through exaggeration, the inverse of what one would like to show, we consider policing actions to utilize the term ‘elderly’ in place ‘old,’ taking away the right of old age to institute itself as a particularity. The condition of subjection is delineated through a narrative arising from clinical experiences with adults, elderly and old, as well as the author-psychoanalyst herself. Exit paths are noted, traced from sublimation, humor, and psychic suffering itself.