Envelhecer com as mãos no barro: narrativas sobre o viver criativo de artistas

Abstract

Nowadays, many of us are getting old and living as elderly for a long time, a fact evidenced in the academic environment, media, public in general and various statistics. This perception is accompanied by the production of discourses on many areas concerning good aging and a good elderliness. These discourses permeate themselves and some of them gain hegemony over others. But which meanings we find on the discourse about aging in the modernity? Do they respond to what? Would there be an equation that leads us unequivocally to the results preconized by this good old-age? Using the psychoanalysis theorical framework in the subject's constitution and exercise of singularities and mainly, D.W.Winnicottt's concept of creativity, we listen to potters and their meanings of growing old, their perception of time, their cravings, and their changes. From these testimonials, we reflected on the contemporary aging and the possibility of exercise the subjectivities in the elderliness. There were conducted three in-depth interviews besides a pilot. The reports were analyzed into the perspective presented by C. Geertz. It means, interviewers discourse was taken as first interpretation and from which I sought the underlying meanings, those are not necessarily expressed by the action narration but through the personal readings, traversed by the culture which a person belongs. Bringing these artists discourses to light, it was possible to find perspectives, not about good or bad old-age, but an elderliness that pertains to the individual who lives it and an elderliness that produces belonging to life, society and culture, in which is inserted the elderly