The increase of longevity is a global phenomenon and it has a lot of visibility in contemporary times. However, there is a homogeneous speech about old age, which associates aging to decline, and a speech that emphasizes a kind of aging, where signs of time are minimized. We seek to understand the ageing experience of 11 people not yet considered elderly by chronological criteria, aged between 33 and 56 years old, from a triggering question, and considering Sartre’s and Beauvoir’s phenomenological-existential perspective, based on Sartre’s progressive-regressive method. The collaborators' perception about their aging was singular and it referred to the larger context, that is, the familiar, social, cultural and historical situation in which they live. We hope to consolidate a space of discussion and transformation about ageing and old age, believing that the existential phenomenology of Sartre and Beauvoir can contribute on this issue. In this perspective, human action must be understood in order to refer to a more comprehensive totality that involves man and world, and it is also in the light of the future.
Keywords:
ageing, old age, existential phenomenology, Sartre, Beauvoir
Furtado Nogueira, C., & Boris, G. D. J. B. (2019). Ageing on Sartre’s and Beauvoir’s Phenomenological-Existencial Perspective. Revista De Psicología, 28(2). https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-0581.2019.55661
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