Labour and military retirement: singularities of a psychic journey

The main aspect of the work refers to the capitalist logics in which the professional activity is required in social and productive processes. When someone retires, there is a rupture with a professional activity that generates in this person a great psychic impact. This study aimed to investigate, from a qualitative methodology, the specificities of work and retirement in the military context. Thirteen retired militaries were interviewed. The categorization of data was done through Analysis of Content and interpretation of data was the basement of Psychoanalysis. As a result, military life and work are related to subjects' identification process. The necessity of a psychicological effort was observed through retirement experiences whether it is used to give meaning or to compensate frustrations from these situations. The listening in research was demonstrated as a resource to psychicological work over the intensities revealed upon the retirement.