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What is jealousy? Is there a story for it? Since ancient times we find countless authors and unde... more What is jealousy? Is there a story for it? Since ancient times we find countless authors and understandings that have focused on these issues. Unfortunately, what can really be observed is that the theoretical understandings focuses almost entirely on the clinical, psychiatric and ‘individual’ aspects of jealousy, as if it were possible to isolate the individual from its context that not only surrounds it as it is commonly believed but, more than that, constitutes it. The purpose of this article, while being a bibliographic review, is to promote a debate and analyze the impacts of jealousy over the everyday love relationships. For this, we seek to answer the following question: in which way jealousy, present in some relationships between men and women, can be understood in face of the transformations that society is undergoing and of the characteristics of contemporary amorous coexistence? Such survey observed that jealousy is not a contemporary experience. On the contrary, it is an ancient feeling, timeless, which follows through different ages and contexts of the human history.

Infidelity brings about strong emotions and reactions among partners who experience it, feelings ... more Infidelity brings about strong emotions and reactions among partners who experience it, feelings like surprise, disappointment, low self-esteem, depression, anguish, guilt, anger, suicide and passionate crimes. The present study tries to understand infidelity’s meanings for women who have been unfaithful in conjugal relationships. This study utilized a qualitative research
method and the data collection instrument was a semi-structured interview. Five women with ages ranging from 30 to 38 participated in this study. Data analysis provided six categories: 1) frustration and dissatisfaction in relationship; 2) emotional involvement as justification for betrayal; 3) Double sexual moral; 4) Guilt and repentance for betrayal; 5) Pleasure in extra conjugal
relationship; 6) Betrayal leading to separation. The results have shown that dissatisfaction with the current relationship and finding in other men attributes not found in partners led these women to a new emotional involvement. Guilt feeling related to discrimination and society’s judgment was also related by the participants. The knowledge about the meanings of infidelity pointed in this study can be useful to Psychology in order to help in these women experiences, as well as contribute to a greater understanding of conjugal relationships nowadays.

Separation as one of the most painful experiences in which a human being can go through, is a com... more Separation as one of the most painful experiences in which a human being can go through, is a complex process lived in different stages and also in different levels, it means, into the secret thoughts of each member of the couple, into their dialogue and in the explicitness to the social context that surround them. For the author, studying loving separation means studying the death presence in life. This way, the current work focused on presenting the end of the loving relation process, identifying and analysing the predominant feeling experiences and impacts into the daily life after the break up in the adulthood life, searching for psychological and physical factors resulting from this condition. This study tried to investigate the possible differences and similarities of the emotional impacts caused by experience of separation, feelings, fantasies and defense mechanisms, as well as, the possible consequences in the relational and social life, of men and women, in order to understand the ways of coping in the separation process. Equally, knowing about the emotional aspects, fears, fantasies, desires, the defense mechanisms can assist in the understanding of the psychological aspects into the loving separation. A research was developed with individuals between 21 and 30 years old separated at present, whose facts were collected through semi-structured interview. This work was based on qualitative methodology, like that the discussion and the facts interpretation followed the psychoanalytical theoretical reference. The obtainable results showed that women experiment the separation process searching for isolation and mourning, while men search for social contact as a way to get rid of suffering caused by separation. Likewise men and women experiment mourning by separation but, through differential coping strategies that can be linked to the own expectation in relation to the gender.

Rev. Bras. de Ciên. do Envelh. Hum., Jan 1, 2010

What is jealousy? Is there a story for it? Since ancient times we find countless authors and unde... more What is jealousy? Is there a story for it? Since ancient times we find countless authors and understandings that have focused on these issues. Unfortunately, what can really be observed is that the theoretical understandings focuses almost entirely on the clinical, psychiatric and ‘individual’ aspects of jealousy, as if it were possible to isolate the individual from its context that not only surrounds it as it is commonly believed but, more than that, constitutes it. The purpose of this article, while being a bibliographic review, is to promote a debate and analyze the impacts of jealousy over the everyday love relationships. For this, we seek to answer the following question: in which way jealousy, present in some relationships between men and women, can be understood in face of the transformations that society is undergoing and of the characteristics of contemporary amorous coexistence? Such survey observed that jealousy is not a contemporary experience. On the contrary, it is an ancient feeling, timeless, which follows through different ages and contexts of the human history.

Infidelity brings about strong emotions and reactions among partners who experience it, feelings ... more Infidelity brings about strong emotions and reactions among partners who experience it, feelings like surprise, disappointment, low self-esteem, depression, anguish, guilt, anger, suicide and passionate crimes. The present study tries to understand infidelity’s meanings for women who have been unfaithful in conjugal relationships. This study utilized a qualitative research
method and the data collection instrument was a semi-structured interview. Five women with ages ranging from 30 to 38 participated in this study. Data analysis provided six categories: 1) frustration and dissatisfaction in relationship; 2) emotional involvement as justification for betrayal; 3) Double sexual moral; 4) Guilt and repentance for betrayal; 5) Pleasure in extra conjugal
relationship; 6) Betrayal leading to separation. The results have shown that dissatisfaction with the current relationship and finding in other men attributes not found in partners led these women to a new emotional involvement. Guilt feeling related to discrimination and society’s judgment was also related by the participants. The knowledge about the meanings of infidelity pointed in this study can be useful to Psychology in order to help in these women experiences, as well as contribute to a greater understanding of conjugal relationships nowadays.

Separation as one of the most painful experiences in which a human being can go through, is a com... more Separation as one of the most painful experiences in which a human being can go through, is a complex process lived in different stages and also in different levels, it means, into the secret thoughts of each member of the couple, into their dialogue and in the explicitness to the social context that surround them. For the author, studying loving separation means studying the death presence in life. This way, the current work focused on presenting the end of the loving relation process, identifying and analysing the predominant feeling experiences and impacts into the daily life after the break up in the adulthood life, searching for psychological and physical factors resulting from this condition. This study tried to investigate the possible differences and similarities of the emotional impacts caused by experience of separation, feelings, fantasies and defense mechanisms, as well as, the possible consequences in the relational and social life, of men and women, in order to understand the ways of coping in the separation process. Equally, knowing about the emotional aspects, fears, fantasies, desires, the defense mechanisms can assist in the understanding of the psychological aspects into the loving separation. A research was developed with individuals between 21 and 30 years old separated at present, whose facts were collected through semi-structured interview. This work was based on qualitative methodology, like that the discussion and the facts interpretation followed the psychoanalytical theoretical reference. The obtainable results showed that women experiment the separation process searching for isolation and mourning, while men search for social contact as a way to get rid of suffering caused by separation. Likewise men and women experiment mourning by separation but, through differential coping strategies that can be linked to the own expectation in relation to the gender.

Rev. Bras. de Ciên. do Envelh. Hum., Jan 1, 2010