Ausencia: vínculos y sentidos desde las experiencias de los niños y las niñas

Abstract

This research aims to understand the sense of absence in family ties from a series of experiences and meanings that boys and girls constitute in the absence of a relative. To do this, an analysis is made of the stories of boys and girls between 8 and 12 years old, characterized by some particularities in their life stories that influenced the configuration of the emotional bond, such as the death of a loved one, separation. of their parents, the loss of a pet or the temporary absence of a member of their family environment. In this sense, a network of categories is proposed that allow us to understand how a link is constituted and what can influence its configuration, understanding that the link is a circular, continuous and safe structure of interactions that requires spaces for creation and development for the trust, and security between people, so that a loss or separation may affect the bond, which in turn may or may not generate an absence. For this, childhood must be thought of as an experience of its own and different from that of the adult, that from the child´s own knowledge has about absence can narrate the feelings about this from the constitution of the bond with the other. From a phenomenological narrative approach and the analysis of the story model of William Lavob, where the interest in the experience, the different meanings and feelings of the bond, allow us to understand the absence, considering that the narrator gives a series of events his own discourse and Their experiences their own meaning and based on the analyzed stories allow us to identify how family ties were established in the child and what type of incidents occurred so that he / she reports a feeling of absence and if this feeling affects them in a positive or negative way.