Abstract
This study aimed to understand the importance of narrating and transmitting experience from the memory of the elder and the place of pariah destined to them in capitalism’s mode of production. It has as reference studies carried out by the social psychologist Ecléa Bosi and by Walter Benjamin. Two elements present in the experiences reported by Bosi - which are present in the concept of history already elaborated by Benjamin -, are discussed: the importance of the remembrance and the messianic redemption. The relevance of narrating experiences relates to what is predominantly presented in the collected memories: the transmission of unrealized possibilities. It is analyzed how capitalism’s flexible working form violates the possibility of constructing the memory of oneself in its connection with the memory of the other by imposing on people the uprooting and its disintegrating effect of memory. Finally, it discusses the urgent need to transform the conditions that generate oppression of the old workers.
Keywords:
Experience; Memory of the elders; Capitalism and uprooting; Disintegration; Exclusion