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| Author(s): |
Mariana Peres Stucchi
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Psicologia (IP/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2009-06-15 |
| Examining board members: |
Maria Luisa Sandoval Schmidt;
Ana Silvia Whitaker Dalmaso;
Sylvia Leser de Mello
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| Advisor: | Maria Luisa Sandoval Schmidt |
| Abstract | |
The idea for this work started from contact with poor mothers who must take care of a lot of things during their days: housework, children, work, and also being a wife and a woman. How can they have enough energy for all of that? Is it possible to live only working and dealing with obligations? This lead to the discussion of work and leisure. They are both very important activities for ability of human beings to express and to keep life going on. This dissertation presents a critical view of the role of work and leisure for people who live in the twentyfirst century. Frederic Munné says that this is a time when our lives are very influenced by marketing and money and that we normally think in a double way: or work or leisure. Cristophe Dejours thinks that being healthy today is to keep engaged and to have a desire for living. This, we can do if we have different activities each day. This is similar to Donald Winnicott´s idea that our interest for living and for life is something people develop from creativity and from the mother/child relationship. This research studies the way of life of poor mothers from a poor community in São Paulo called São Remo, USP neighborhood. Because of this neighborhood São Remo doesn´t give much value for researches in the area. They are studied often, but little feed back is given. This is shown in this work, that is based on São Remo women´s interest, and also they are interested on psychologist consultation. Starting with my presence in a monthly meeting organized by Pastoral da Criança, I met seven women who would like to talk about their daily routines. Those are full of emotion and shows lots of different meanings in each activity. The Pastoral meetings have a lot of mothers with their children, waiting to check each child weight, to see who will be the lucky three winners of donated food, for snacks. These mothers and children enjoy the outside atmosphere with space for children play and an opportunity to speak with other mothers. A very rich moment that demonstrate the big part that motherhood plays in their routines. They can unite responsibility and relaxing. Even when they talk about work, they can give value to the way they do things, the diversity of things to see and the money they can have to pay bills and sometimes buy women things, among other points. As well as their dream to have their own beautiful house. They teach us many ways of living, to fight for life, to dream and to keep desire to live. (AU) | |