When I had
to decide for a career, I was worried about the subjects I would learn and how the
university would broach them. So I applied to Psychology at Universidad de
Chile, especially because I realized it shares the faculty with other
disciplines that are related to the social area too (‘Facultad de Ciencias
Sociales’). In that sense, I would say that I admire the way Víctor Jara lived
and died. I believe he could understand the spirit of their fellow countrymen
and fellow countrywomen. He was born on 1932. The family was poor. His mother
and father were always at work; he was illiterate, she knew how to read a
little bit. Almost everybody thinks that Victor only was a singer, but he participated
on the chorus of the church, he went to the military, he studied to be an actor
(instead of that, he preferred to direct), he went over this country to rescue
popular poetry and he took part of one of the greatest moments of the chilean history
(brief, but deeply intense). Well, to understand the psychology it is crucial
to know different areas of the life.
Usually, the notion of technology is related with the usefulness. In that case, probably the most useful object is the mobile phone, because it’s got a lot of functions that the humans of our time need. But, if I have to choose, my favourite piece of technology would be the camera. I’ve been wondering about the memory and how fragile it is. Fragile because we forget almost everything that happens in the daily life, but also because sometimes we just need a tiny stimulus to recreate old memories. In my opinion, the photograph is an excellent way to do that. The camera helps me to remind how our streets were and how our faces have changed. It could be interpreted as a desperate act of trying to register everything. However, I think that’s impossible for the camera and for me.
I like victor jara too, it was consistent and courageous :3
ReplyDeleteI think the courage of Victor Jara has a lot of things to say to the discipline of psychology
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