Old age has facets and preconceptions that are associated with what it represents. Our aim here is to study the peculiarities related to the phenomenon of being old and its impacts on the subject. We focus on how individuals deal with the disparity between the timeless unconscious and the aged body. We assume that the discourses that standardize the body dominate the symbolic subjective life of the subject and leave no room for the construction of an individual narrative.
Ageing; body; death; psychoanalysis