A PSYCHOANALYTIC READING OF THE CHRONOPSYCHOLOGY OF THE ELDERLY IN ALGERIA

Abstract

In this article, I will try to discuss and shed light on aging and the chronopsycology of elderly in Algria. Aging is a natural and complex stage of an individual's life, due to the multiplicity of factors that carry within them a complete process from birth to death as a basic existential goal that should be understood and prepared for as a chronological extension of the previous age stages, in the various biological functions The totality of these dimensions, which proceed in a fairly regular psychological rhythm, is called the chronopsychology of the elderly person, if he or she does not undergo psychosocial or psychosomatic changes that disrupt his or her performance and activity.

In this regard, our study aims at a psychoanalytic reading of the chronopsychology of the elderly retired person in Algeria, for two cases (63 and 70 years old), through the clinical approach of case study, targeting the nature of the ego anchoring function and the unconscious defenses that characterize his psychosocial reality: avoidance and withdrawal from the present reality and fixation on the past with a sense of guilt in the first case, nostalgia in the second case and fear of the unknown.