"Language of suffering": a socioanthropological interpretation of a Brazilian hospice, the Instituto Juvino Barreto in Natal (RN).
Language of Suffering"; Juvino Barreto Institute; Elderly and Elderly; State; Indifference and Insensitivity; Social issue.
This is a research that aims to form a language that interprets as a "language of meaning" within a a hospice for the elderly patients in the Municipality of Natal. A socio-anthropological approach that, from an ethnographic experience, emits a participatory observation, the information and narratives of the "resident" elderly and the elderly, the attempt to make a description of the Juvino Barreto Institute, considering institutional elements that have led to the proposition of the analytic category "language of suffering" as a useful interpretive key to understanding life in the place. The researcher tries to highlight the strength of a linguistic structure that shapes an institutional culture, revealing the scent, fights, food, physical structure, bodies and certain aspects of the institution. There is talk of a structuring structure that acted in a way to respond more adequately to the questionnaire, which led to a process of discussion about the search, greater emphasis, problem of objectivity, written subjectivity and what gave a lived experience. We evidenced forms of resistance to language that prevailed in the everyday life of the elderly and the elderly. Finally, the possibility of a "language of meaning", on the contrary, linked to a broader dimension of the social, at the same time as "Weber" (1999) called "Disarrangement of the world, hypothermically, such as: rationalization of life, control of bodies, social indifference, insensitivity to others, lack of recognition and precariousness of existences. A scenario that is compatible with the analysis literature on growth and growth that points to a tendency to think of older people as a "social problem".