Informe Final: Aportes de la Alteridad Basados en Experiencias de Sufrimiento para la Formación Integral de Jóvenes

Abstract

This is an approach to the category of otherness, from the perspective of human pain, through different perceptions. In the light of Emmanuel Levinás, supported by other authors, mostly Jewish. Because events such as the Holocaust are an example of what it means to face suffering, obtaining life lessons that humanise. In this way, the aim is to bring young people closer to the encounter with the other, developing empathy. A means to overcome selfishness, stereotypes, judgements and indifference. This qualitative and documented research aims to understand suffering. Associated by young people with illness, loss and rejection. A trigger of emotions such as rage, frustration, impotence, fear and mainly generates distancing from oneself and others and prevents the experience of otherness.