El desfallecimiento del deseo y su incidencia en las imposibilidades subjetivas de los adultos mayores, residentes en las instituciones gerontológicas, a partir del confinamiento por la COVID-19.

Abstract

The present work analyzes the fading of desire and its incidence in the subjective impossibilities, in age groups residing in gerontological institutions, from confinement by COVID-19. In 2020, the pandemic has brought with it a series of restrictions that have caused greater subjective impossibilities in older adults. By remaining in a gerontological institution, the older adult has the possibility of expressing negative thoughts that lead to triggering distress. Faced with abandonment, isolation, lack of meaning, losses, death, estrangement, restrictions due to COVID.19, it has caused symptomatic manifestations in the individual that make it impossible for him/her to desire. The methodological approach used has been qualitative approach, through the review and analysis of bibliographic references, taking into consideration the psychoanalytic perspective and developmental psychology, by means of clinical case studies attended in gerontological institutions. During the work, it was evidenced that the faintness of desire comes from the Other, where the Other must recognize him/her as a subject of desire. In the gerontological institutions, a primary function was observed, which is to position the elderly in homogeneous activities, making it impossible to understand what they really demand. The demands they express are directed more to their biological needs and not from the singularity of each one.