Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The issue of research on which we focus this study is based on a reflection around the discourse about linguistic knowledge production in/of Brazil in the fifties. Our central scope is in the understanding of temporality and discursive memory that constitute the scientific discourse about language of this conjuncture from the crossing of Linguistics disciplinary field knowledge. We are interested in this crossing, as it refers to a domain not yet institutionalized in the academic Brazilian context and because it was in a period that there were advances in studies around the Portuguese of Brazil. Thus, in our research, it was approached issues that emphasizes how and for to the scientific discourse around language features a combination with knowledge from different fields; seeking to examine, in particular, the operation of the crossing of Knowledge on Linguistics in this discourse, this crossing can be understood through the notion of transverse-speech (cf. Pêcheux, 2009 [1988]). In order to do that, we have as object of study two works by Serafim da Silva Neto: Introdução ao Estudo da Língua Portuguêsa no Brasil, 1st edition, 1950, and Introdução ao Estudo da Filologia Portuguêsa, 1st edition, 1956, which are significant to the situation in question, by inserting at two different times in the 50s. The first one is recognized as the best work about the Portuguese of Brazil, and the second one is considered a guide that was circulated in Language Courses at the time in question (cf. Penha, 2002). In this sense, we wrote in the view of History of Linguistic Ideas, linking it to theoretical and methodological principles of Discourse Analysis from French orientation, as it is developed in Brazil. / A problemática de pesquisa sobre a qual nos debruçamos neste estudo de dissertação volta-se a uma reflexão em torno do discurso sobre a produção do conhecimento linguístico dos anos 50 no/do Brasil. Nosso escopo central está na compreensão da temporalidade e da memória discursiva que constituem o discurso científico sobre a linguagem dessa conjuntura a partir do atravessamento de saberes do campo disciplinar da Linguística. Interessa-nos este atravessamento, pois esse domínio de saber ainda não está institucionalizado no âmbito acadêmico do contexto brasileiro e porque se trata de um período em que se verifica um avanço nos estudos em torno do português do Brasil. Com isso, tratamos, em nossa pesquisa, de questões que enfatizam como e para que o discurso científico em torno da linguagem apresenta uma articulação com saberes de diferentes domínios; buscando analisar, em especial, o funcionamento do atravessamento dos saberes da Linguística nesse discurso, atravessamento este que pode ser compreendido a partir da noção do discurso-transverso (cf. Pêcheux, 2009 [1988]). Para tanto, delimitamos como objeto de estudo duas obras de Serafim da Silva Neto: Introdução ao Estudo da Língua Portuguêsa no Brasil, 1ª edição, de 1950, e Introdução ao Estudo da Filologia Portuguêsa, 1ª edição, de 1956, que são significativas para a conjuntura em questão, inserindo-se em dois momentos distintos dos anos 50. A primeira é reconhecida como a melhor obra sobre o português do Brasil, e a segunda, considerada como um manual que circulou nos cursos superiores de Letras da época em questão (cf. Penha, 2002). Nessa esteira, inscrevemo-nos na perspectiva da História das Ideias Linguísticas, vinculando-a aos pressupostos teórico-metodológicos da Análise de Discurso de orientação francesa, tal como se desenvolve no Brasil.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:19:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 EDuardoM_DISSERT.pdf: 763038 bytes, checksum: b2e3d261a15553ede12f6a8abfcbefce (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-09-28 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / The work that follows is dedicated to the study of the historic time experience by the political militancy from our time. The political militant from the left-wing is the one that denies the state of current things, recovering a historic experience located far before its time and projecting a future beyond the incessant reproduction of the present relations. We chosen the Landless Workers Movement, not as study object, but as specific place where this consciousness is made and can be comprehended. The historic consciousness study of the landless militancy is, for us, the best starting point to understand the magnification of the historical time operated on the change of social relations lived inside an organization. The time division between before and after, as well as the history being understood as a progress isn t a natural given data, but a construction that obeys the contradictions of the present. It, therefore, must understand how the present lived by the militancy operates changes on the consciousness of time. From documents, reference books, formation notebooks and several materials produced by MST, we try to understand the way that the movement tells his history and lists with this wider experience of the struggle for the change of the current social order. Similarly, when we hear reports of history of several militants, we try to comprehend how this wider narrative re-orients the sight over history himself, over the experience of contradictions on before and after making the landless militant / O trabalho que segue dedica-se ao estudo da viv?ncia do tempo hist?rico pela milit?ncia pol?tica de nosso tempo. O militante pol?tico de esquerda ? aquele que nega o estado de coisas vigente recuperando uma experi?ncia hist?rica situada muito antes de seu tempo e projetando um futuro para al?m da reprodu??o incessante das rela??es do presente. Escolhemos o Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, n?o como objeto de estudo, mas como local espec?fico onde essa consci?ncia ? formada e pode ser compreendida. O estudo da consci?ncia hist?rica da milit?ncia sem terra ?, para n?s, o melhor ponto de partida para entendermos a amplia??o do tempo hist?rico operada na mudan?a das rela??es sociais vividas dentro de uma organiza??o. A divis?o do tempo entre um antes e um depois, bem como a hist?ria entendida como progresso n?o ? um dado natural, mas uma constru??o que obedece ?s contradi??es do presente. Trata-se, portanto, de entender como o presente vivido pela milit?ncia opera mudan?as na consci?ncia do tempo. A partir de documentos, livros de refer?ncia, cadernos de forma??o e diversos materiais produzidos pelo MST, buscamos entender a forma como o movimento conta a sua hist?ria e a relaciona com essa experi?ncia mais ampla da luta pela terra e da luta pela mudan?a da ordem social vigente. Da mesma forma, ao ouvirmos os relatos da hist?ria de diversos militantes, buscamos compreender como essa narrativa mais ampla re-orienta o olhar sobre a pr?pria hist?ria, sobre a viv?ncia das contradi??es no antes e depois do fazer-se militante sem terra

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / A presente tese tem o objetivo de promover uma análise sobre a norma penal brasileira que versa sobre a violenta emoção, com base no estudo teórico da ação criminal passional. Tem por objeto de estudos a discussão sobre a temporalidade psíquica da ação que sustenta as distinções no instituto jurídico da violenta emoção apresentada nos artigos 28; 65, III, c; 121 1 e 129 4 do Código Penal Brasileiro. A partir de uma construção genealógica, buscou-se os antecedentes históricos dessas leis, posteriormente, interpretadas à luz de conceitos psicanalíticos e de contribuições da antropologia social acerca do imaginário cultural que sustenta a eclosão e o julgamento de crimes na esfera amorosa. O método de trabalho consistiu em um estudo teórico de caráter dedutivo-construtivo baseado em fontes oriundas de diferentes campos teórico-práticos e também de consultas abertas feitas a juristas e estudiosos da criminologia. As transformações históricas nos julgamentos indicam uma transposição da antiga indulgência em relação aos criminosos ao atual apelo por recrudescimento das penas, demonstrando que justificar ou punir crimes sob a rubrica da violenta emoção ligados à esfera amorosa representa um sintoma atrelado ao contexto social. O conceito de "violenta emoção" está sujeito a reducionismos teóricos, devido à ênfase dada à dimensão da "culpabilidade consciente" no sistema jurídico, ao predomínio de interpretações ligadas aos aspectos psicofisiológicos do ímpeto, bem como à incipiente atenção dada às condições inconscientes culturalmente determinantes do ato criminal violento em casais. Desse modo, o texto dos referidos artigos pode servir indevidamente à diminuição da pena em crimes envolvendo casais, assim como a devida atenuação pode ser desconsiderada quando a/o ré/u sofre de privações sociais e psíquicas prolongadas constitutivas de um mal-estar passional por vezes dissociado do tempo da ação. Com as limitações apontadas, reconhece-se a importância da existência da referência à violenta emoção enquanto uma atenuante criminal genérica e critica-se a sua aplicação como "privilégio" de diminuição de pena em crimes de ímpeto em casais. O estudo psicanalítico historicizado do tema assevera a necessidade de realçar tanto a responsabilidade subjetiva ligada à atualização de um potencial psicopatológico, mas, também, a responsabilidade social em relação aos crimes passionais, enfatizando a importância de se criar alternativas à resposta penal, buscando promover uma leitura e interpretação cuidadosa dos artigos sobre a violenta emoção no sentido de propiciar melhor entendimento da temporalidade inconsciente inerente a esses crimes. / The following thesis has as its aim the advancement of an analysis of the Brazilian penal norms as they pertain to violent emotion, grounded on the study of the passionate criminal act. Its basis for study is a discussion concerning the psychic temporality of the act that sustains the distinctions within the juridical institution of violent emotion presented in articles 28; 65, III, c; 121 1 et 129 4 of the Brazilian Penal Code. From a genealogical construct, the historical antecedents of such laws were targeted and then interpreted in light of psychoanalytic concepts and contributions from social anthropology regarding the imaginary customs that nourish the profusion and judgment of crimes within the sphere of love. The work method hinged on a theoretical study in the deductive-constructive manner based on sources ranging from different theoretical/practical fields and on open interviews with jurists and specialists on criminology. The historical transformations of the trials indicate a transposition from the old indulgence towards criminals to todays appeals for the harshening of sentences, showing that justifying or punishing crimes of violent emotion in the sphere of love represents a symptom directly linked to a social context. The concept of violent emotion is not immune to theoretical simplifications, given the emphasis placed on the dimensions of conscious culpability within the penal law system, the predominance of interpretations linked to the psychic-physiological aspects of the drive, as well as the incipient weight placed on the unconscious, culturally determinant conditions of the criminal act among couples. In this manner, the text in the referred Articles may unduly serve for the lessening of sentences for crimes involving couples, just as the due attenuation of sentences may be overlooked when the defendant suffers from prolonged social and psychic privations comprised of a discontent often times dissociated from the time of the criminal act. Pointing out such limitations, one must recognize the importance of the existing reference to violent emotion as a generic means for criminal attenuation and criticize its use as a privilege for the lessening of sentences in crimes of impetus among couples. A psychoanalytic, historical study of the theme stresses the need to enhance the subjective responsibility tied to the realization of a psychopathological tendency, yet furthermore enhances the social responsibility in relation to crimes of passion, thus underscoring the importance of providing alternatives to the penal court answer in order to promote a careful interpretation of articles on violent emotion for the better understanding of the unconscious temporality inherent to these crimes in the penal context.

Este trabalho tem por objetivo relacionar o ensino de História, as noções de tempo e as relações de temporalidade. O estudo aconteceu a partir da experiência de elaboração do curso de formação continuada O Ensino de História, as noções de tempo e as relações de temporalidade e sua aplicação junto aos professores da rede municipal de ensino do município de Arroio do Meio/RS. Pretendeu-se discutir fundamentos teóricos e metodológicos de maneira a correlacionar os temas e qualificar a ação docente no Ensino Básico. A pesquisa foi desenvolvida a partir da observação e análise de materiais produzidos pelos professores participantes e utilizando mecanismos vindos dos estudos etnográficos, como o caderno de campo. Nessa proposta utilizou-se o conceito de Tempo Histórico a partir dos estudos do historiador Reinhart Koselleck e suas contribuições para complexificar o entendimento das relações de temporalidade. A intenção da formação foi possibilitar uma análise das propostas de planejamento dos professores, de maneira a problematizar o conceito de tempo que perpassa a organização das aulas e dos conteúdos escolares. Ao finalizar a aplicação do curso de formação, foi possível observar uma ampliação nos entendimentos dos conceitos de forma a superar o modelo vigente de ensino baseado em uma visão linear e naturalizada de História. / The main objective of this study is to relate the teaching of History, the notions of time and the relations of temporality. The study occurred from the experience of elaborating the course of continuing formation The teaching of History, the notions of time and the relations of temporality and its application with the teachers of the municipal school network of the city of Arroio do Meio/RS. The intention was to discuss theoretical and methodological fundaments in a manner to correlate the topics and qualify the teachers practices in Basic Education. The research was developed based on observation and analysis of the materials produced by the participating teachers and the use of mechanisms from ethnographic studies, like the field notes. In this proposal, the concept of Historical Time was used, based on studies by the historian Reinhart Koselleck and his contributions, in order to complex the understanding of the relations of temporality. The intention of the formation was to make possible an analysis of the teaching plans, in a manner to problematize the concept of time that grounds the organization of classes and the school contents. By finalizing the application of the course of formation, it was possible to observe an enlargement of the understandings of the concepts in order to overcome the current model of teaching based on a linear and naturalized vision of History.

This essay analyses the temporal structure that Rosenzweig develops mainly in his work The Star of Redemption in order to locate, on one hand, a messianic principle that organizes a specific theologico-political realm, and on the other, to understand the way in which certain terms from the judaic prophetic tradition are refunctionalized to activate in a concrete form a system of thought based on the premise of otherness. / Este ensayo hace un análisis de la estructura de la temporalidad que Rosenzweig desarrolla sobre todo en su obra La estrella de la redención con el fin de ubicar, por una parte, un principio mesiánico con el que se organiza un ámbito teológico-político específico, y por otra, comprender la manera en que se refuncionalizan ciertos términos de la tradición profética judía para activar de manera concreta un sistema de pensamiento filosófico basado en la premisa de la otredad.

José Emilio Pacheco (Mexico 1939-2014) est un poète, romancier, nouvelliste mexicain qui a profondément transformé le paysage de la littérature en langue espagnole. Son œuvre se caractérise par un travail continu sur le texte, le sien et celui d’autres écrivains. L’observation et l'analyse de la réécriture comme pratique textuelle, l’étude du discours métalittéraire qui l’accompagne et, de manière moins évidente mais tout aussi prégnante, l’examen de topoi poétiques connotant cet éternel recommencement, mettent en lumière une véritable poétique de la réécriture. Le premier chapitre de notre thèse permet d’introduire la notion de réécriture, avant de la confronter aux concepts et notions théoriques qui lui sont adjacents : le dialogisme et l’intertextualité, l’influence et la tradition, la critique génétique. Dans le deuxième chapitre, nous réfléchissons à la réécriture en tant que praxis littéraire : afin de prendre la mesure de la productivité textuelle et de son orientation vers la réception, nous proposons une typologie formelle et une typologie fonctionnelle des principales opérations rescripturales dans l’œuvre de notre auteur. Le troisième chapitre, analytique, examine en détail les processus de réécriture autographe : les changements introduits lors des nouvelles éditions révisées et corrigées des textes narratifs et poétiques nous donnent l’image d’une écriture mouvante et soumise au passage du temps. Enfin, le quatrième et dernier chapitre aborde la réécriture allographe. Après avoir examiné quels textes ont été réécrits, depuis quelles langues et quelles cultures, nous nous attarderons sur les principales manifestations de la réécriture de l’autre dans l’œuvre de Pacheco et nous verrons comment celles-ci contribuent à privilégier l’image du lecteur, du traducteur ‒ ou de la bibliothèque ‒ plutôt que celle de l’auteur. / José Emilio Pacheco (Mexico, 1939-2014) is a Mexican poet, novelist, and short story writer who deeply changed the scenery of Hispanic literature. His narrative and poetic works show a continuous recreation of his own texts, as much as other writers. The analysis of textual operations such as quotes or corrections, the study of the metatextual discourse that comes along with it, and, in a more subtle but equally significant way, the interpretation of a set of poetic topoi which reveals the endless repetition of linguistic and literary materials, lead us to set up a poetics of rewriting. The first chapter of our dissertation deals with the theoretical concepts and methodological tools: dialogism, intertextuality, influence and tradition, textual genetics. The second chapter muses over the act of rewriting in a pragmatic perspective. Based on the examination of the works of Pacheco, and in order to encompass the diversity of the rewriting practices, we propose a formal and a functional typology of rewriting phenomenon. In the third chapter, we follow the main line of research of textual genetics to question an analysis and an interpretation of self-rewriting in a selection of poems and short stories. The changes introduced by the rewriter during the revisions and corrections previous to new editions show us a dynamic and temporal textuality. Finally, the fourth chapter is about the texts in which Pacheco rewrites other authors. By using a diversity and a multiplicity of sources and by reproducing and inserting other writers' verses or sentences in his own compositions in a sometimes transgressive way, it contributes to favour the figure of the reader, the translator ‒ or the library ‒ instead of the figure of the author.

Ever since the inception of the modern computer, researchers and designers alike have been interested in the effects of system delays on users. The current study was conducted in order to examine the most central issues to the field of temporality in interaction, and presents a consolidation of a selection of publications on the subject. A distinction between two types of interactive systems, discretionary and continuous, is proposed in order to situate previous studies by the system being studied. The type of control being exerted by users differs on a fundamental level between the two types, hence affecting the effects of delays. Furthermore, an experiment was conducted to examine the effects of constant, sub-second system delays in discretionary tasks using a digitalised version of the Trail Making Test (FR-TMT, Summala et al., 2008). The experiment yielded but one significant result in form of an improvement in user response time as delays were increased. The other results showed no significant positive or negative effect of increased delays. These results are indicative that the chosen delays do not have any detrimental effects on users, in accordance with the presently coined ’theory of task interruption’. This theory considers delays as either interruptive or non-interruptive and maintains that only delays that disrupt user work-flow are to be removed from interactive systems. The current study gives reason to why some delays can be positive to user interaction, or in themselves be informative of system status, and be an integral part of a feedback structure. Further research is needed before all aspects of system delays are fully understood. New ways of looking at delays and using them in system design, like predictability and predictivity, are becoming more prevalent, and may become the focus of research and temporal design in the near future.

Ce mémoire propose d’explorer trois « expérience de pensée » décrites dans les œuvres de Diderot, en particulier dans la Promenade du sceptique, l’Encyclopédie et le Rêve de D’Alembert, qui laissent entrevoir par leur forme même l’image de l’activité de la pensée. Le but de cette recherche est de tester la possibilité d’une connaissance historique (prise au sens large) au travers de l’expérience de sens que constituent ces œuvres de Diderot conçues comme « fictions », dans le statut ontologique des objets engagés dans l’expérience et la fonction de l’histoire dans ces expériences. La première partie présente une nature fixe et désordonnée, de laquelle l’observateur fait une expérience spatiale et temporelle dont il rend compte dans un discours analogique qui l’interprète, c’est-à-dire la calque. Diderot critique ainsi le cogito de Descartes, uniquement tourné vers le présent de l’énonciation. L’histoire, comme genre littéraire, est pratiquée de manière subversive pour critiquer l’érudition. La deuxième partie présente la complexité de la structure de l’Encyclopédie et son mode de fonctionnement interne qui rend compte d’une conception historicisée de l’expérience (par accumulation de données et redéfinition processuelle des frontières de la connaissance). L’ouvrage a un rapport ambigu avec l’histoire et plusieurs pratiques historiennes se côtoient. La troisième partie, quant à elle, présente une forme de connaissance historique interne à l’expérience du soi dans la mémoire dont il est constitué et fait signe vers une « métaphysique » de la poésie, conçue dans sa possibilité d’accès à la pensée des liaisons nécessaires du monde. / The purpose of this research is to explore three « experiences of thought » described in Diderot’s oeuvres, in particular in the Promenade du sceptique, the Encyclopédie and the Rêve de D’Alembert, each of which reveal in themselves the image of thought’s activity. It proposes to elucidate a kind of historical knowledge (of history in general) by examining the experience of meaning that constitutes these works of “fiction”, in which one uncovers the ontological status for objects supplied by experience, as well as the role that history plays in these experiences. The first chapter presents nature as both a fixed and disordered, something which the observer interprets and even outlines via an analogical narrative. Diderot also criticizes Descartes’ cogito, which is orientated in particular towards to the present, or the moment of enunciation. History, as a literary genre, is practiced subversively and aimed at criticizing intellectual erudition. The second chapter deals with the complexity of the structure of the Encyclopédie as well as its internal operation, which presents a historicist conception of experience in and through the accumulation of facts and successive redefinitions of the limits of knowledge. His work as a whole has an ambiguous relationship with history and entails several historical practices. The third chapter explicates a form of historical knowledge internal to the experience of the self in the memory that constitutes it, and points to a “metaphysics” of poetry. This poetry opens up the possibility of thinking the necessary relations that make up the world.

La planification urbaine est un modèle révolu dans une société où il est devenu impossible de projeter un futur linéaire. Nous atteignons la fin d'un paradigme, dont nous analysons les éléments émergents avec le Schéma Directeur d'Aménagement Urbain de la région parisienne (SDAU) de 1965. La recherche s'est appuyée sur deux situations, révélant des alternatives à la planification urbaine rigide : le cas du Plan-guide de l'île de Nantes et un dispositif Programme Communautaire d'Amélioration de Quartier (Programas Comunitario de Mejoramiento de Barrios) créé à Mexico entre le gouvernement et les habitants. Les deux terrains de recherche exposent chacun des éléments qui viennent alimenter la notion de mutabilité urbaine, que nous définissons comme la capacité des villes à accueillir le changement et à favoriser les possibles pour fabriquer les villes. Elle dépasse le support spatial et vise à construire une démarche pour accepter l'incertitude. Nous avons défini trois conditions qui permettent de rendre opératoire le concept : accueillir le changement (1), accepter l'incertitude (2), partager une collection d'inventivités (3). Chacune demande la mise en œuvre d'actions, que nous développerons en dernière partie et qui nous a conduit à définir plusieurs types de mutabilités, qui ont chacune leurs temporalités, leurs urgences, leurs temps de préparation. Elles ont toutes leur place dans la fabrication des villes car elles permettent de rendre vivant chaque lieu, chaque instant. La mutabilité urbaine ne se propose pas comme modèle, mais souhaite valider d'autres modes de faire. Elle interroge l'autrement, c'est-à-dire qu'elle s'écarte des modèles préconçus et des certitudes, pour les remplacer par un cadre défini localement comme un ensemble de métarègles qui ouvrent des possibles urbains / Urban planning can be considered out-dated in a society where it has become impossible to project a linear future. We have arrived at the end of a paradigm, as can be witnessed in the analysis of the Schéma Directeur d'Aménagement Urbain of the Paris region (SDAU) of 1965. Our research focuses on two situations arising from alternatives to rigid urban planning: the case of the “Plan-guide” of the Isle of Nantes and the initiative “Neighbourhood Improvement Community Programme” (Programas Comunitario de Mejoramiento de Barrios), established between the Mexican government and the community. Each case study allows us to identify constitutive elements of “urban mutability”, defined here as the capacity of cities to welcome change and favour “the possible” (les possibles) in their making. These constitutive elements go beyond the spatial structure of the city and attempt to create a procedure for accepting uncertainty. We have defined three conditions that permit an operational understanding of the concept: accommodation of change (1), acceptance of uncertainty (2), sharing of collective inventions (3). Each condition necessitates an active follow through that we will expand upon in the last section, and which has led us to the definition of several types of mutability, each with their own temporality, urgency, and length of preparation. All have their place in the creation of cities as they allow us to breathe life into each space, each instant. Urban mutability does not offer a model, but rather validates other ways of acting. It questions the meaning of “alternative” (l'autrement), which means that the distance created in the step away from preconceived models and assurances allows a locally defined framework of meta-regulations to open new “possibles” for cities

L’entrée en établissement d’hébergement pour personnes âgées dépendantes (EHPAD) constitue pour celles-ci un évènement important. Elle est le passage de la vie chez soi, lieu de l’intime, vers un espace collectif, probable dernier lieu de vie, qui affecte le rapport aux temps. Or, si le temps chronologique est régulier, homogène et irréversible, le temps vécu et éprouvé des hommes est autre : il est caractérisé par une temporalité habitée par les expériences. Nous nous sommes interrogés sur la perception du temps dans la conscience interne de la personne âgée. Est-ce que la perception du temps chez la personne âgée diffère selon sa situation de vie ? Le cadrage théorique convoqué est essentiellement philosophique et en ce qui concerne la perception du temps plutôt phénoménologique. Ceci nous a permis de construire le problème de recherche : Est-ce que les temps et les projets s’expriment de façon différenciée dans la conscience interne de la personne âgée selon qu’elle est placée en EHPAD ou vit à son domicile ? L’étude comparative des récits des personnes âgées vivant en institution EHPAD et de celles demeurant à domicile s’inscrit dans une méthodologie qualitative. Les interprétations des analyses de contenus mettent en évidence deux environnements aux caractéristiques opposées : en EHPAD, se produisent des ruptures et des altérations de la conscience interne tandis qu’à domicile, il y a plutôt continuité de vie et activation de la conscience interne. / Moving into a nursing home is an important step in the life of an elderly person. It means shifting from their own home, a private place, to a communal space likely to be the last place where they will live and this affects their sense of time. We asked ourselves what the perception of time is in the inner consciousness of older people and whether the perception of time in the elderly varies depending on their place of living. The theoretical framework is essentially philosophical while that of the perception of time is rather phenomenological. These form the basis for constructing our research question: Do timespans and future plans expressed in the inner consciousness of the elderly differ depending on whether they have been placed in a nursing home or live in their own homes ? The comparative study of the narratives of seniors living in nursing homes and those living in their own home relies on a qualitative approach. Interpretations of content analyzes show the two surroundings have opposite characteristics : there occur disruptions and alterations in the inner consciousness of those in nursing homes, while there tends to be continuity of life and activation of the inner consciousness for those staying in their own homes. Desubjectivation of people living in nursing homes is the result of a process that is being built up and this contradicts the hypothesis of the existence of a direct causal relationship that woud be attributable solely to the context of placement.