Identidad: desde las heridas emocionales y su memoria (el desarrollo humano y la configuración de la identidad vistos desde una perspectiva afectiva)

Abstract

A person’s emotional wounds, caused by significant events in his or her life, generate elements that shape his or her identity and behavioral aspects. Some of these shaping events include violence, sexual abuse, illness, loss of a loved one and family abandonment, among others. These events are consolidated in the affective memory of each person causing scars that alter the interaction with their social and family environment. In the present research, this issue was investigated using a phenomenological tool applied to elderly people located in the city of Bogotá D.C., selected by convenience sampling. The objective was to understand how these events, narrated from their life experiences, have shaped part of their identity and are implicit in the construction of the concept of human development. The tool collected sound and photographic records, which became inputs for the generation of the book Metamorphosis, which describes the different experiences of the participant population through poetic narrative and digital illustration. The research-creation focuses on the subline of affective and emotional knowledge, also contributing to the sublines of body, sensibility, thought and culture.