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Emotions, nostalgy feelings and psychic suffering: the dimension of affects in the experiences and memories of a migrant community

Abstract

The following article inserts itself in the bulge of the debate concerning concepts of memory, experience, subjectivity and their relations with oral history. Based on specialised bibliography and on the analysis of oral sources of migrants/occupants of Fazenda Caiveirinha, in the late 1970s and early 1980s (in the northwest region of the city of Goiânia-GO), we identify and seek to comprehend the manifestation of a recurrence of common temporalities in the speeches of deponents pervaded by emotions and feelings of nostalgia and by psychological distress. Thus, the talks are analysed as a universe of values and traditions, customs and habits, experienced and recalled daily by the subjects of this social movement as constitutive and constituted dimensions of the movement and in it.

Keywords
memory; affections; migration; nostalgia; suffering

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