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A Psychosocial Exploration of Love and IntimacyA Psychosocial Approach to Narrative Studies and Reflexive Research

A Psychosocial Exploration of Love and Intimacy: A Psychosocial Approach to Narrative Studies and... [I introduced Chapter 1 of this dissertation with a series of questions asking what romantic love means to us, what it promises and how we cathect it as an ideal. In order to answer some of the questions that were raised in the Introduction to Chapter 1, ‘ways of seeing’ romantic love from a sociological, feminist, existentialist,1 Lacanian, cultural studies (poststructuralist), Freudian and object relations viewpoint were outlined. The guiding research question was whether these ways of seeing love2 led to a view of love as possible or impossible. It was argued that object relations psychoanalysis could contain both possible and impossible views of (a reconceptualised) love in contrast to the other concepts of love that were reviewed, which tended towards a one-sided concentration on love as either quite straightforwardly possible or as tormentingly impossible.3 However, the importance of a psychosocial way of seeing love was argued for, rather than a purely psychoanalytic or exclusively sociological explanation of love and its vicissitudes.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Psychosocial Exploration of Love and IntimacyA Psychosocial Approach to Narrative Studies and Reflexive Research

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2006
ISBN
978-1-349-54459-2
Pages
129 –159
DOI
10.1057/9780230501515_8
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Abstract

[I introduced Chapter 1 of this dissertation with a series of questions asking what romantic love means to us, what it promises and how we cathect it as an ideal. In order to answer some of the questions that were raised in the Introduction to Chapter 1, ‘ways of seeing’ romantic love from a sociological, feminist, existentialist,1 Lacanian, cultural studies (poststructuralist), Freudian and object relations viewpoint were outlined. The guiding research question was whether these ways of seeing love2 led to a view of love as possible or impossible. It was argued that object relations psychoanalysis could contain both possible and impossible views of (a reconceptualised) love in contrast to the other concepts of love that were reviewed, which tended towards a one-sided concentration on love as either quite straightforwardly possible or as tormentingly impossible.3 However, the importance of a psychosocial way of seeing love was argued for, rather than a purely psychoanalytic or exclusively sociological explanation of love and its vicissitudes.]

Published: Nov 11, 2015

Keywords: Interpretive Approach; Romantic Love; Sociological Approach; Textual Tradition; Interpretive Method

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