Objective:
We investigated the collective imagination of Physical Education students about a healthy life.
Methodology:
We performed an interview with 27 students of Physical Education, drawing upon the procedure Thematic Story-Drawing with Theme "a person who leads a healthy life." The productions were considered in the light of the psychoanalytic method and uptake of interpretive fields of meaning underlying affective-emotional.
Results:
The interpretation work allowed for perceiving a field called "individual responsability", which is structured based on the belief in that health would be a state that depends mainly on individual initiatives and actions.
Conclusions:
The picture found indicates that the field operates positive effects toward personal initiative, but it produces, as a problematic consequence, an obfuscation about the importance of environmental factors, which depend on social and governamental actions.
Collective imaginary; Healthy habits; Health promotion; Physical education students
