Future Lovers:
Longing, love and aging in an elders rest home
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9133.v28i2p325-342Keywords:
love, future, aging, trajectory, longingAbstract
From fragments of the trajectories of two women, Penelope and Dorinha, residents of a spiritist rest home for the elderly in Minas Gerais, we will discuss the centrality that love and longing take in their narratives. To this end, they scrutine love relationships from their past to design an ideal love scenario in the distant future. Because they believe in afterlife and they have a christian-ethic-oriented perception of gender roles, the 72 and 74-year-old women bring to the present an atmosphere of a happy future in their next lives, where they would be loved. The way they understand the possibility of a future relationship is stressed by the reality that they are in– a profundly negative reality: aged bodies that are not objects of desire and therefore are doomed to sexual/affective loneliness.
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