A CONSTITUIÇÃO SUBJETIVA DO ENVELHECER

Abstract

Giving dimension to the human development from a socio-historic perspective, this master thesis aims to give subsidies to the old age processes’ comprehension. Vygotsky and Rey’s theories are the basic theory references and appoint subjects’ development and their subjective constitution as a complex and dialectic process, allowing the comprehension based on their historic-cultural roots. Aiming to understand how the processes are established, which interact at the individuals’ development, constituting subjectively the old age processes, this thesis became possible to clear how the interviewees constitute old age psychically, in a singular manner and how the old age social representations and labor conditions in this beginning of century are established from the subjective process of each one. Searching for support at historic-dialectic Materialist, the commitment with the production of knowledge within this thesis is linked on praxis. It also proposes reflections concerned to the old age social representations and their social practices, when the human potential and non-potential steady dynamics are evidenced throughout this development.