Sentido de vida en jóvenes víctimas del conflicto armado en el departamento del Meta

Abstract

This project responds to the requirements for professional grade in the program of psychology of the University Santo Tomás headquarters Villavicencio. Their primary interest is to understand the psychological experiences involved in the meaning of life of two young victims of the armed conflict in Colombia, from psychology, intentionality is also retrieve the voices of young people, their stories as inputs fundamental to recognize experiences, aspects and dimensiones of what has happened with the subject in the context of the war and their emotional, psychological and social consequences. This investigative work takes up elements of the approach of Víctor Frankl, one of the most significant representatives of humanism; vision frankliniana as to the meaning of life, suggests a teleological definition that allows human to continue the course of its existence, assuming the responsibility the challenges that life means, taking into account that all people are different and no situation is repeated, each subject finds within himself the psychological elements that support it and restore in situations of profound internal fractures, such as love and suffering, which are modelled in this work as categories you are the meaning of life (Frank, 1991). The work goes to a phenomenological epistemology that aims to meet the person from their experiences with respect to the meaning of life, its reality, its subjectivity formed by the experience of life, emotions, relationships, understandings and capabilities, among other, i.e. the subject in relation to the object of study, for this reason and in response to the relevance of the research, is part of the interpretive paradigm, which proposes the subject's active participation and relies on the interpretation of the experiences in the production of knowledge, it is also complemented by methodology, because it goes to the narrative method and the accounts of life as a source of information for those young experienced events and concern, which was collected to through an in-depth interview.