“I have to adapt to life”: A lacanian discourse analysis about life during old age
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The present study is qualitative and starts from the discursive paradigm, taking up again elements of Lacanian psychoanalysis and Lacanian discourse analysis. We worked with a group of elderly people who belong to a senior citizens' club in the city of Aguascalientes called "Volver a vivir". An open conversation was held with the members of the group, which was audiotaped and transcribed, with the intention of answering a question: How do the elderly live? This question aims to analyze the way the elders shape their lives in the discourse beyond what other perspectives point out by emphasizing the researchers' own interpretation and conceptualization, thus the central node was the voice of the elders. The main result was that a significant chain was found, established as: "I must adapt myself to life, so that one is left with something, my life, even if it is only for the moment", which establishes two dimensions, that of life itself and that of the other life, which one seeks to reconcile through adaptation.
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