Analogies of physical activity and health with the Ulisses and the mermaid myth

Abstract

This text has as objective to reflect the understanding of the physical activity and health, through the collective subject speech, identifying and analyzing the categories of Ulisses and the mermaid myth, present in the classical Odyssey. The comprehension of physical activity and health, as well as the Ulisses and the mermaid myth, was performed through a field research focused in the methodology of the Collectives Subject Speech (DSC), of Lefevre, Lefevre (2005), and through theoretical incursions by references from the human sciences, in special, Adorno, Horkheimer (1985), whom have analyzed the mith. The data from interviews that were made with people who practiced walk in the park in the center of Maringá city points the predominance of a instrumental rationality that forbid the man to know the calling to other human dimensions.