A construção da identidade e da subjetividade do idoso

Abstract

This study, The Construction of Elderly's Identity and Subjectivity, has as a principIe the idea that there is not only one way to grow old, to live as an old subject, but various. Tluee situations that present several forms of thinking and living old age are analysed in the present thesis. Se, being an old person in a asylum, a singular old person and, an aged person that participates in social and cultural programs in an association dedicated to the third age, alI of them reveal their own characteristics in the way how each one of the investigated groups represents and lives its own old age. The notions of social identity and subjectivity and the possible relations that are stablished among them, substantiate the theoretical discussion in the present thesis