Construcción narrativa de la identidad y la emergencia de resiliencia desde los significados de vida y muerte

Abstract

The present work of degree it’s framed in the line of investigation "Psychology, family and human systems” from the Santo Tomás University. The objective of this investigation is to understand the narrative construction of the identity and the meanings of life and death in people with experiences in Colombia’s armed conflict and it’s relation with the emergence of resilient processes. The paradigmatic and epistemological bases of this work, were given from the complexity look, social constructionism, constructivism, second order cybernetics and the ontology of language. Consequently, a qualitative research was carried out, implementing a case study design. The characteristics of the participants referred to people who had experienced the armed conflict in the country, in other words, that they had experienced in direct way such a conflict and that these experiences had a profound impact on the narrative of life, it should be mentioned, the experiences addressed were not pre-defined because this implies a limitation respect to the narration of the people and, therefore, to the phenomenon of study. Reflective conversational scenarios were implemented, being recorded in audio for transcription and analysis, from the narrative identity construction, resilience and the meanings of life and death as conceptual categories.