ASD 2000 Conference 17 Abstracts

Millennial Dreaming: Washington, D.C.

During a near period of eight months (PhD thesis, 1999), weekly stories, graphics, daydreams, and memories from a group of four healthy nonagenarian ancients were collected. The presence of an overflowing symbolic imagination, and a permeability linking memory contents and imagination were observed. Among these people, Mrs. Lili, aged ninety years old, produced a series of graphics with native home theme. Although their productions can not be classified as spontaneous in a strict sense, they were, in a major part, made alone and without direct influence - some of them were made with her own initiative, without any execution demand and with the material available: used packing paper, lampoon's backside, used papers... ( although paper, common pencil and color pencil were left to her). The graphics from Mrs. Lili are surprising for their expressiveness and beauty and  illustrate in a clear way, almost self-explanatory, the author's creativity. The houses, little houses and big houses that she drew are esteemed, cultivated, comforting images and here the desire to return to the native home must not be understood or confused with the desire of regret - or regressive desire - to the mother. Instead, Mrs. Lili's houses point out the intimacy and comfort note, essential to home image, which main attributes are deepness, calm, secret, warm, closeness. Finally, these graphics confirm some studies result that put in evidence the creativity presence in a healthy process of aging. 

Example

Figura 1 - September, 12, 1996

Vita 

. Psicólogo pelo Instituto Unificado Paulista.

. Mestre em Filosofia, área de concentração Epistemologia da Psicologia e da Psicanálise,
  pela Universidade Federal de São Carlos.

. Doutor em Psicologia, área de concentração Psicologia Clínica, pelo Instituto de Psicologia  da Universidade de São Paulo.

W. J. MIGLIORINI, PhD, Araraquara, Brasil

Contact information: 

Migliorini, W. J. M. PhD
Instituto de Psicologia da Universidade de São Paulo
Analyst and  developmental psychology teacher 
Araraquara SP Brasil
Email: wajom@uol.com